The book launch of Mr Sakhile Sibiya, titled, Black Man, Are You Stupid, was launched on 19 November 2021, in Soshanguve. Mr Sibiya is a pastor, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, diversity consultant, and community builder, whose driving passion is to change the perspectives of black communities.
In a media statement, his Public Relations Officer, Ms Faith Mathole said the book launch was a launch of a revolution to change the perspective of the black people to grow the black economies and build sustainable legacies that will ensure the future generation escape the poverty that has engulfed black people.
The launch was set to ignite real conversations about black economics, which is the flow of money or wealth among black people. Hosted by Entrepreneur and Alex Fm presenter Gcina Madonsela.
Mr Sibiya said before embarking on industrialization, black people need to learn to love themselves and their culture and stop compromising their blackness for quick fixes that have no return on investment.
“This book is meant to awaken black people to use their economic power to propel black people so that we can stop lingering in poverty, unemployment, crime, drug use, drunkenness, and the endless black self-destruct. It is time that we start investing significance in each other,” he said.
Keynote speaker, Mr Vusi Thembekwayo said if we are serious about the agenda of advancing ourselves as a nation, we need to do what those nations who are advanced do, no need to wait for qualifications to do what we are called to do.
“There is no white man that is our problem or Pakistan who is a problem, it is us we are the problem. If you abdicate yourselves of the responsibility, we rob ourselves of the power to change it. If we blame others, when are we going to change,” he said.
