When training fails — the trauma factor South Africa can’t ignore
Daily Maverick | 11.03.2026 01:24
An older man in a work programme told me he dreamed of a small vegetable garden — then listed, like a prayer, why it couldn’t happen: no space, no money for municipal water, no money for seeds. Nothing was “wrong” with him. Everything had happened to him. And until someone sat with him long enough to turn the mountain into steps, the dream stayed where poverty often keeps it: in the mouth, not in the ground.
