You can accuse black South Africans of many things, but intellectual laziness is hardly one of them.
Think of those kids who, when a pothole suddenly opens up in a township road, will suddenly pick up shovels and a wheelbarrow, fill it with sand and stones, and go to fill up the hole.
Taking shifts, these kids will wait on the side of the road collecting cash "contributions" from passing motorists, grateful to the kids for saving their tyres.
It's an ongoing job, by the way. The sand and small stones need to be replenished into the gaping hole every now and then. While municipal officials are dilly-dallying, debating who to award the pothole-filling tender to, these kids have stepped into the breach.
There is an enterprising spirit about what they do.
Which brings me to one of our most misunderstood entrepreneurs, Zodwa Wabantu. Always scantily clad in media pictures, Zodwa has erroneously been compared to Americans Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton, "famous for being famous".
This is an unfortunate misunderstanding. Hilton comes from a super-rich family. By being a Hilton she obviously should be famous.
Kardashian, too, is from an illustrious family. Her father was lawyer to the disgraced athlete OJ Simpson.
When a tape of Kim having sex went online, she gained notoriety - but also gained millions of followers.
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