The impartial and impersonal article by Pat Kondile (The Herald, 18 April 2025) got me thinking — particularly about his advocacy for the current Empilweni Public Hospital at the entrance of New Brighton to be privatised and turned into a hotel, motel or bed-and-breakfast abode.
As the adage goes, “Recognising a light in someone else does not diminish your own.” I am therefore nominating him for a Civil Society Directorship (CSD) position at the Madiba Bay Development Agency (MBDA), because his sober intellectual capital would add immense value to the agency’s boardroom and, by extension, the economic expansion of the Nelson Mandela Bay economy.
The said agency could consider adding two or three directors from the civil society cluster, because narrowing the development of this region only toward strict qualification requirements — albeit sometimes lacking expansionary ideas — will paralyse this region’s progress for even longer. Other worthy candidates in this context would be Talbot Cox and Malcolm Dodds — people who can see patterns quite effortlessly. As the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer simply put it: “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.” The three gentlemen mentioned above, I opine, fit that genius bill to a tee.
— Luyanda Marlon Kama, Kwa-Dwesi, Port Elizabeth
