SEDIAMO WANTS TO BECOME ONE DAY LEADER

The first year law student at Wits University has made to the top six of the reality show and is determined to scoop the coveted tile of One Day Leader

The One day leader programme is part of the SABC education television series which aims to help young people in Mzansi achieve their goals and become agents of change in their communities.

This TV series is aired on SABC1 every Sunday at 18:30 and highlights the ideas young people have to change their lives and those of others’.

It is in this show that Seadimo Tlale from Tumahole Parys in the Ngwathe Local Municipality is competing to become a one-day leader.

She is counting on her community and the entire people of the Free State to achieve her goal and change the country for the better. Tlale is aware that she is representing more than 300 000 young people of the province who also wish to present their plans for the future of this country.

She was excited when The Weekly visited her recently. She is unwavering in her determination to shift the mindset of many young people in the country.

According to Tlale, the show has boosted her confidence. She is now motivated and ready to motivate young people to take charge of their own destiny.

“My mom single-handedly raised me and I look up to her. I am blessed to have her as a mother. I want her and everybody else to be proud that, at a tender age of 19, I have ideas that could change the country, especially our youth who have given away their future to drugs and crime,” said Tlale.

Tlale is a first year law student at Wits University. She believes young people would successfully contribute to growing the economy of the country by being entrepreneurs and job creators.

“The youth of this country need to prove their worth by being at the forefront of job creation. To achieve this, they need skills. Skills development is the only thing that can shake things up.”

One Day Leader aims to identify and produce young leaders who possess exceptional business and political savvy required to attain social change. The contest is open to South African nationals aged between 18 and 25.

Unlike her contemporaries, Tlale is using the show to express her thoughts on how the country can benefit from its youth. She has conducted extensive research on how young people can do things themselves without government’s involvement in any way.

“I have been really humbled by this opportunity and would like to use it to inspire others. I believe that a true leader is one who cannot only critically identify problems in her community but also efficiently implement sustainable solutions to the predicaments.”

“I therefore believe that anyone can be a leader from anywhere they are. However the show gives me the opportunity to demonstrate this. In essence, I am here for those young minds with big dreams that sit and support me every Sunday. As the youngest contestant to ever be on One Day Leader I believe it is my responsibility to use the ODL platform to prove ultimately that anyone can do it because if Seadimo can do this, then anyone can!”

She said the show allows her to contribute to changing people’s lives:
“It allows great platforms to be directly involved in the changing of lives. As a leader, I strongly believe in helping others because when you help someone you lift them. When you lift them, you give them an opportunity to help someone else until we are in a spiral of cohesive success, which is the crux of what my leadership is about.

Young people in Tumahole are throwing their weight behind Tlale. She also has the backing of local political leaders. Huge posters rallying support for Tlale adorn the town of Sasolburg
The posters urge people to watch this series, in which six young people showcase their leadership skills by tackling modern day South African social, economic and political issues as part of competing for the coveted title of One-Day Leader.

Her mother Pulane Tlale could not hide her tears when she accompanied her daughter to the SABC studios. She said: “I am proud of her and I hope she wins and becomes a true leader. As far as I am concerned, she has already won, by making it to the top six and beating off competition from 2 000 other applicants.

The show tells the story of the evolution of these six young people from ordinary young people into willing, influential, accountable, thoughtful, calculating and brave visionaries, the epitome of the future youth leaders of our country.

This is a reality series aims to educate young South African between the ages of 18 to 25 about leadership skills. This it does whilst also investigating social, economic and political issues that impact the leadership of the country. It aims to explore, extract and showcase leadership qualities of young South Africans represented by six finalists.

These qualities are judged on the ‘six pillars of leadership’ namely: Willingness, Vision, Attitude, Influence, Action and Accountability. This thought provoking series encourages the television audience to learn via a narrative of scripted challenges and debates driven by a dynamic presenter, Masetjhaba Lekalake.

Seadimo plead to everybody to vote for her by smsing Leader 2 to 34068.