ConnectHub: Teaching school pupils entrepreneurship and community self-reliance - Thebolo Motshegare

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Thebolo Motshegare is a teacher at the prestigious St Stithians College in Johannesburg. Noticing the differences in how pupils view entrepreneurship to where he hails from, Bafukeng near Rustenburg, he decided to start a non-profit organisation, Connect Hub that created a 10-week entrepreneurship programme for high school pupils. Motshegare told Biznews he wants to challenge the mindset that a formal education is the only way to advance. “There are a lot of kids who get a university degree, but can’t get a job in South Africa,” he said. Motshegare also wants to encourage young people to solve community problems without relying on the government. “Communities are not built by governments,” he said. “They are built by those who live in it.”