BUSINESS YOUTH AWARDS ARE NEXT

Revelation 3: 15 – 17: “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, will I vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing - and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.”

Each time I read the above text in the book of Revelations, a letter to the Laodicean people, I feel the crying and afraid. It talks about these people who claimed they were rich and needed nothing, yet in reality they were miserably poor, blind and naked! If this is what the future says about us then we are headed for tough times indeed!

I recently had a meeting with one young Swazi businessman, aged 31.
This man is an expatriate doing business in a foreign country but he is still a strong Swazi patriot. This swazi entrepreneur has outgrown Swaziland. He realised that Swaziland was too small for him and has ventured in business outside the country.

He did not do this by relocating his company, changing citizenship or moving his family to the foreign country, but he is running a business outside Swaziland and yet based in the kingdom and actually pays all his taxes locally.
He makes the money outside Swaziland and pays all his dues to the Swaziland Revenue Authority (SRA).

Now you understand why I regard him patriotic. He is an admirable young businessman. He runs a travel agency responsible for sending tourists to a foreign country to experience natural heritages.  He also operates an online gambling business in the same foreign country. He spends over 80 per cent of his time in the foreign country running his Swazi company.

 When I asked him: “Why don’t you exploit the cultural heritage and beauty of our kingdom?” His answer was simple: “I would love to, but it appears Swaziland is arrogantly blind to the potential it has and is missing.”
He is held in high esteem in the foreign country he is running his business in but the same can’t be said of the treatment he gets in Swaziland. Was it King Jesus who said a prophet has no honour in his own land?
That foreign country’s tourism authority regards him as a key stakeholder in the tourism industry, but in Swaziland it is said no one cares about him.

This is not intentional but it’s because they don’t realise he is an asset. Could this be the Laodician behaviour as predicted by John in the Holy Book? My next question to him was: “Why do you take all your expertise in Information Technology (IT) and use it to set up and run the lucrative online gambling in a foreign country instead of helping Swaziland to set up and benefit from this?”

 This young man looked at me and said: “That is why I am talking to you and asking you to help me open the correct door where they will smell the coffee about this worldwide and fast growing money making industry.”
He went on to tell me that he is ready to take the online gambling business to greater heights in Swaziland and use his worldwide knowledge of how this business works and the benefits Swaziland would get from all the global consumers of this industry.

Did you know that as we speak, Swaziland has no legislation for issuing online gambling permits or licences? In fact, the real position is that, currently the country is not able to issue any new gambling and gaming licences due to the absence of the appropriate legislation.  So for the time being,  we are letting this opportunity pass by.

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