Education is worth every cent spent and every effort made.And if you don’t quite believe it, just go ask musician Sipho 'Hotstix' Mabuse. Despite having achieved the fame and fortune that many dream of, the 60 year-old South African star went back to school to finish his matric. Hotstix now officially holds a matric certificate.
“We salute Hotstix and hope that his educational achievements and perseverance are highlighted in the same manner for which he he has stayed in the limelight for his music – a very long and successful time,” comments Natalie Rabson of Boston City Campus & Business College. “When the initial fuss is over, we will all still be referring to the Hotstix example to spur people on. Because his results were announced in the same week as Madiba’s birthday, it should be easy for us to remember to also raise a glass to Hotstix every year at this time.”
She believes Hotstix has done more for education than a million words could hope to achieve.
“Educational institutions like ourselves spend considerable amounts of time and money telling the community, both young and not so young, that education is the key that unlocks financial, social and personal wellbeing in the modern word,” she explains.
“Parents and teachers, as well as institutions such as ours, give wordy lectures to the younger generation about committing to their studies. Sure enough, some of these messages reach the intended spot, but Hotstix has said the most without saying a word.”
To get his matric certificate, the Sowetan-based Mabuse did time behind a school desk in his home town just like any regular learner – he attended part-time adult classes at the Thaba-Jabula Secondary School in Klipspruit, Soweto. No mean feat for someone who dropped out of school some 40 years ago (Grade 11 in 1969). According to the Sowetan, Mabuse always felt incomplete without education despite having achieved great heights as a musician. He plans to enroll for post-school education, possibly a degree in anthropology, majoring in music anthropology.
Without a doubt, tertiary institutions must be queuing to recruit Mabuse as a student – he has established himself as a role model for education, and for having an education behind you despite existing success in your industry - , as well as the motivational value that he will bring to any campus as a dedicated and passionate student. Rabson says Boston City Campus & Business College would be honoured to have him “anytime”. She points out that the college has a branch in Soweto, something that is sure to please Mabuse seeing that he likes the concept of studying close to home.
“There are a couple of courses we could recommend to him,” Rabson notes. “As a musician he may be interested in doing one of our business courses to broaden his horizons and market new products, or he may wish to learn how to study Digital Music Composition and Production – something we are perfectly placed both to teach him and in some ways to learn from him.
Boston teamed up with Africa’s largest independent dance record label, Soul Candi to offer courses in digital music composition and production as from this year onwards at selected branches.”
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