Anyone can succeed, I did!

Two things stand out from the author, carefully crafted book ‘Anyone one can, I did’. Throughout the book he gravitates between two crucial topics: Anyone daring enough can succeed in a hostile environment; and that there is more than what meets the eye in the education system. Beyond the classrooms and the chalkboards, lies battlefields where cold wars are daily fought with men and women of integrity often caught between fire. It gets so nasty at times that honest individuals are driven out of their jobs against their will, at all cost. Dr Mothapo narrates with such precision dated events as life happened to him and to some of his colleagues who suffered the cutting blade of politics and unionism. In all this, his aim is to highlight how one could still swim through in infested unkind waters simply because ‘where there is a will, there is always a way.’ We are further introduced to four individuals who defied the odds of poverty and other challenges to ultimately realize their goals. This sharing of such experiences beautifully demonstrate how human spirit can rise up from the ashes like a phoenix. These are ordinary men and women who could have easily succumbed to defeat but today they are true compasses of hope, with their lives bearing testimony that ‘anyone can.