Monday, September 17, 2012

Cure for Social Revolt Against Our Democratic State

Am I the only one seeing the spate of social upheavals or demonstrations in our newly found democracy a contradiction of noble expectations? On the contrary I know many South Africans find these developments equivalent to a dilemma of unlimited proportions for our young democracy.  I also believe the underlying causes of the demonstrations of a social uprising that occur at random across our country are almost obvious to almost every citizen of our Republic. Though the scale of the events of the uprising is still small, our fear is that if nothing is done to address the underlying causes, an all out revolution may explode and turn our democracy on its head. This may be expected to occur when the patience of the masses get's completely exasperated by inadequate responses to their plight. What is referred to as masses, are actually people of indigenous African descent bore the greatest proportion of the brunt of apartheid as a crime against humanity. I must hasten to add that the democratic government has since 1994 made many attempts to address the symptoms of the discontent but in my view, the actual causes are not yet addressed. Great deals of the causes of the discontent were created over the period of colonization and apartheid from 1652 to 27 April 1994. During that sad epoch for the indigenous African citizens of our country, settlers among other strategies used invasions, looting through the barrel of the gun, colonization, and apartheid in a systematic manner to achieve the current causes of the discontent feeding the uprising. Some of those tools of utilized by the regimes devastated Africans in all respects and created the underlying causes for the present social discontent of various groups of the indigenous African population:
· Marginalization of the indigenous Africans from both the national and the global economies orchestrated by the state.
· Dispossession of land livestock and devastation of African agriculture.
· Exclusion of indigenous Africans from professions; business ownership; ownership of the means of production; ownership of capital; and exclusion from acquisition of critical skills necessary for the emancipation of the majority of the population.
· Limitations on access to descent housing; descent jobs; education; sports, etc.
· Creation of geographical poverty stricken reserves for the indigenous African population.
While this crusade of plunder continued with cruelty against the African people, the settlers used the sate to enrich themselves and their surrogates at the expense of the indigenous African population. The distribution of the scarce economic resources was designed to favor Europeans and their surrogates while impoverishing the indigenous population. Furthermore, when the Africans gained UHURU in 1994, three more underlying causes were added to the mix mentioned above by the African ruling elite. First, the new democratic state advocated social reconstruction, economic empowerment, and other legislative interventions and policies that sought to level the plane field without reparations for the damages already done to the indigenous population by the colonization regimes from 1652 to 1994. Whereas legislative interventions like employment equity law; 'broad based economic empowerment law'; and land transfer as limited by post 1912 - willing buyer willing seller - and only 30% of dispossessed land provisos; etc. are not bad in themselves, but like all other policies of our democratic government do not go far enough. One need only look at the table of what I call the underlying causes above to understand why these interventions remain shallow and ineffective against the redress of the plight of the indigenous African population. The second post 1994 underlying cause of discontent is a tendency of former activists who got into government and set up syndicates for self-enrichment through the plunder of the resources of the democratic state to the extent where the masses are denied delivery of basic services. Thirdly, the creation of a politically connected and economic elite class that limit job and economic opportunities like the awarding of tenders and contracts to itself and its surrogates. This is an additional tragedy and fundamental dilemma in our young democracy that begs ingenuous leadership. I believe our country needs a blueprint that goes beyond the cosmetic changes that only address the symptoms instead of making fundamental changes towards the eradication of the underlying causes that are behind the fractures that we witness. In order to address these challenges our country required ingenuous leadership.  Such leadership must go beyond and do things beyond anything that is being done at present.  In order to make fundamental changes to the socio-economic superstructure that inform the formation of a new landscape acceptable to the indigenous majority, that Leadership need to learn from other countries that come from a similar past like our own. I believe among such examples, Venezuela, Nigeria, Cuba, Kenya, Zimbabwe, China and Dubai in the Arab Emirates can inform different aspects of the new blueprint. For instance, Kenya successfully transferred land back to its rightful owners through a fair system that the government of President Jomo Kenyatta financed. Venezuela and Cuba achieved fundamental economic revolutions through nationalization of the means of production and capital; and both Nigeria and Zimbabwe used indigenization laws to achieve fundamental changes to the ownership of the economy, the means of production, and capital. Last I observed the last time I visited Dubai that the majority shareholding in most corporations including new investments was in the hands of the indigenous population. South Africa needs a blueprint to reconfigure daily reality for the African majority. I have dedicated a big bulk of my time and the research for the new books that I write to search for such a blueprint.  In the next Blog post I will look at each of the countries mentioned above to see what made their programs and policies effective to achieve their stated objectives. I have also written extensively on what South Africa needs to explore in my book entitled Blueprint Centric Innovation & Creativity.  The latter is available online. Just click and follow this link:
(This article was written as an opinion representing me, Eliyah Khumalo as a private citizen of the Republic of South Africa).

Thursday, August 9, 2012

2012 Overview of Latest Blueprint Book Series

Overview of the Blueprint Books

  Over the years I have taught,  written and self-published many booklets to shed light on various aspects of blueprint centric concepts and or paradigm shift that is necessary to equip people with knowledge and skills to solve  challenges and many difficult problems that our world experience on an on-going basis. Now I have taken this project to another level of developing each blueprint into a book to address a specific area of crisis resolution and or present a blueprint centric human person development models as an alternative paradigm capable of providing endless answers to the challenges of the 21st century and beyond.   By so doing I believe more people will get exposed to God’s help and solutions in times of ambiguity, uncertainty, and unpredictable change.  I am convinced that when we face times of crisis, what we know give us less leverage than what we don't know.  Therefore, you not only need to know what to do but also how it's done and what not to do in times of crisis.  Among others, a blueprint is a roadmap that enables one to access the 'know how' necessary to navigate one's way out of a challenge, a problem, a difficulty, or a crisis. Whether it is an individual, a community, or a nation, the skill to devise blueprints is imperative for survival.   Blueprint paradigms will equip people to search for answers beyond known conventions and stretch vision beyond what is seen.  Blueprints also bring to the fore the truth that each difficulty that one faces, is laden with hidden opportunities for a better life.  Without the capacity to conceptualize and devise blueprints, such opportunities will go without exploitation. There is a saying that 'if a hungry person asks for fish, and you give that person fish, that will not solve the problem the person is facing; but if you give that individual fish and teach him or her how to catch fish, then you have eradicated that individual's underlying problem.'  Therefore, designs that emanate as outcomes from the processes of devising blueprints are important because they show people how to go about solving near impossible problems while also removing their causes. Unless one is conscious of a new paradigm that gives one the ability to devise a blueprint to exploit an opportunity to one's advantage, a chance to make a turning point will be lost forever.  Here is a list of some of the books that I have completed writing with a brief overview of the purpose of each writing and or the blueprint under the spotlight. Although I recommend that you read the entire Blueprint Book Series, I have also added a guide on the reader segment for each book. I hope that you will find each one of these books very helpful.  Last, I have tabulated information on how and where to purchase any one of the books that I have already completed and published at the end of this post.




· In Pursuit of Innovation & CreativityBlueprint Centric Innovation & Creativity
Volume 3 of the Blueprint Series is intended to help any one that reads it to discover their hidden creative potential, and live a fulfilled life through maximizing the release of that potential.  Its concepts are intended to empower the individual person to the point of being able to devise blueprints for value creation.  Blueprints are significant to success in life because without them there is no birth of new products and services that can be exchanged for commercial gain.  For this and other reasons, this book will help to transform consumers into producers of their own unique goods and services for the global market place.  This book is a valuable resource of Heads of State, Heads of Governments; Leaders in Institutions, Colleges, and Universities that are tasked with responsibilities in the area of academic development; and Global Organizations that help to develop change agents in the area of  economic development for  regions of our world that still lag behind post-industrialized societies.
The starting point towards success in life is knowing where you come from and where you are going. You may ask, why do I need a blueprint? As you journey towards your destiny in life, a blueprint becomes a roadmap that ensures that you reach your destination. The second most important word in this equation is innovation. Whereas as human beings we can use everything that already exists, the latter is not all that is to exist or all that ever shall be. Therefore, we continually need to go beyond the known, and the seen to transcend limitations as we maximise our own potential, and bring things that did not exist into existence. The ability to devise blueprints helps us to activate our torpid creativity. A blueprint enables innovation and creativity. The latter is of paramount importance, because without this, we may not be able to change our circumstances. Consequently, the inability to change circumstance leaves many people feeling trapped and enslaved. In such a state, one invariably cannot help it but feel helpless. The next worse thing is to cave in or just give up on life. You then become a victim of circumstances. But what if you knew that there are unknown ways, alternative approaches, solutions, realities beyond the obvious? If you only rely on what already exists, you are in the same boat with a majority of the world's 7 billion inhabitants. In that boat the competition for the scarce resources is very stiff. Life in that boat is survival of the fittest. Here winners are always in the minority. By default the majority are losers. What is even worse is that losers are relegated to poverty and ultimately to extinction. This is what will happen to the majority of the human population if we ignore the innovation clarion call that I make in this book. Extinction! On the contrary innovation opens a new chapter. It enables you to see what others are not seeing yet. If you work tirelessly on discovering the blueprint of that unseen reality, you are closer to bringing into existence something that is unique. Your patent is about to be born. Everything will at this stage change in your favor. You will at this stage be facing less competition because you have gone where no one has ever gone before. Innovation transforms you into a master of your own destiny. This is what this book, Blueprint Centric Innovation & Creativity espouses. Its intention is to transform ordinary people into the new specie of world changers that know what others don’t know, doing what others can’t do, to get results that others can’t get.

·         In Pursuit of a Blueprint – Discover the Blueprint’s Potential for Transformation of Life
       In Pursuit of Blueprint book is a resource intended to help ordinary people find meaning and purpose in life.  If you want to know what on earth are you doing here or simply find answers to the puzzles of life, this book is strongly recommended for you.  This book, among other things will equip you with skills to devise roadmap/s that I call blueprint/s to help you navigate your way on the journey to find answers and solution to challenges that you face in life.
In this book I share with readers my discovery of the secret blueprints behind the existence of all living organisms and non-living entities.  Furthermore, there is nothing that is in existence today either in the visible or the invisible realms that is a result of an accident or a coincidence.  On the contrary, countless tons of evidence stands as proof that the universe had its beginning from the designs of its Maker.  Equally important, is the fact that these designs that I call blueprints are a foundation for the making of everything that is in existence including the universe.  My intention in this writing is not to engage in the battle of ideas or the various wars of the schools of thought on the origins of the universe.  On the contrary, the focus is on what a blueprint is, where it originates from, and why is it significant in the 21st century and beyond.  Upon the comprehension of this fact, is the possibility to re-invent any reality we desire, to re-create any future we envision.  The premise is that if the universe and human beings were made from a blueprint, and if a human being is equipped with the potential to design blueprints, then a human being is a creator in the ‘image and likeness’ of One that devised and created the universe.  Therefore each human being is by default endowed with the design potential to re-invent the new circumstances, the new world, and the desired future he or she wants.  Indeed humans are the only specie that can re-invent reality and determine the future they desire to have.  The main focus of this book is to help to maximise the release of innovation and the creative potential in each human being especially the majority that are less privileged captives of poverty and under-development.  The book makes a submission of a blueprint as a roadmap towards the transformation of life threatening circumstances in the real world towards the ideal world every one of us would like to see and live in.  The deduction from this writing is a powerful conclusion that everything humans will ever be in need of, the change that each of us can’t live without, and the future we desire for ourselves and our children is hid inside a blueprint.  For this reason, not only are we as humans born with the talents and gifts; the capacity to learn; but more than that each one of us is endowed with unlimited creative potential to design blueprints for prudent inventions and the creation of any desired or a ‘to be’ state we want to see or experience.

·         Ultimate SpiritualityThe Revelation of the Glory of God Today

Ultimate Spirituality book is a valuable resource for ordinary believers and leaders in the Church or any religion fot that matter.  The book will assist you to find and encounter the Presence of the Glory of God beyond religion.  Furthermore the book makes a sumission of  historical examples of individuals that had an encounter with God even before any religion was invented, before Holy Books were written, and even before there were scholars and writers on the subject of Spirituality.  The book then guides you on a journey to encounter the Presence of God in real life.

This book presents the habitation of God as the primary purpose of the Church.   The Presence of God is a fundamental, critical enabling factor for the manifestation of the kingdom of God on earth and the penetration thereof into all spheres of human thought and activity.  God’s purpose encompasses the manifestation of His presence from the invisible spirit realm into the physical and visible universe.  Human beings were meant to be the epicentre that connects the divine and supernatural with the universe.  The human race needs to progress from proclaiming and hearing the truth, to become the interface for manifesting the presence of God into physical reality and life. It is for this reason among others that a human being was designed to be the conduit through which the supernatural God intervenes inside nature. The human interface is the place where the rubber hits the road.  It is a point where theories about God translate knowledge into experience.  It is at this place where both the soteriological and the charismatic manifestation of the Spirit of God become as real as our selves.  Adam and Eve never had a temple or a shrine in the Garden of Eden.  There was no Bible, no Seminary, no Christian College, or Christian school in the Garden of Eden.  There were no altars, no sacrifices, no sacraments, no choirs and other Christian programs that we have come to accept as our contemporary definition of the Christian religion today.  However, Adam and Eve before the fall had God in person visiting inside time and space.  God came into the universe, and although He is Omni-present He manifested at one location in space in a moment in time.  Time after time, God lived among human beings momentarily. God continued to fellowship with Adam and Eve in the cool of many days prior to the fall.  There exists a myth that God departed from the human race because of the sin of the first couple.  On the contrary, God still continued His visitations with the first couple and their descendants many epochs after the fall.  What is strange is that ultimately the sinner ran away from the Savior. Consequently, our sin consciousness, the effects of our disobedience, and the consequences of the fall imposed on humanity the understanding of a God that is either too distant from humanity with only a possibility of visitation out there in the horizon or just a God that is inaccessible.  On the contrary, God’s desire is to have a permanent place of habitation with, amidst, and in human beings.  Why should you and I settle for less?  God never created any distance between human beings and Himself.  The distance was created by and is still created by our absence without leave from the presence of God.  It is the human race that actually gave God an eviction notice.  God’s desire is that all of us as individuals and collectively can avail ourselves to be the sanctuary of the Most High God.  To this end, God is standing at the door of the core of our being, knocking, waiting patiently for you and me to open and let Him into the center of our lives.  Likewise this book presents the simple truth that is consistent in the scriptures that you and I are the temple of the living God.  This mystery of the abode of God is what the New Testament calls the Church.  To this end this book argues that the Church will never and can never be a physical building because God is a spirit that no such building can contain.  The spirit being in your body, the real you is the dwelling place of God.  You are the true Church.  The climax of this book is the realization of the fact that God provided Jesus Christ as the way for the human race to begin a journey back to God.  Jesus is the only one that disannulled and removed the eviction notice that the human race had served to their only true God.  The scenario is portrayed very well by Jesus parable of the prodigal son that took his inheritance and departed from his father to a country far away.  His father never moved away from him even an inch.  Certainly the prodigal son realized this fact after loosing everything his father had lavished him with and began to take the journey back to the same place where he left his own father.  Likewise each of us that desire to reverse our lives of depravation, have a roadmap back to the father.  Jesus Christ is the way that makes our return to the presence of God both possible.  As we each take our journey back to God, each of us enter into the eternal celebration and the restoration of our inheritance becomes a reality.    God himself is ever ready to take center stage at the core of our being immediately we return to that place.  The eviction notice, that God calls sin has been nailed to the cross, so that we may regain what we lost.  In this book we will go on a journey to discover the practical benefits that the manifested presence of God brings to daily living.  God created human beings to rule the earth and all living creatures on earth on condition that the latter maintained continuous access into God’s presence.  Furthermore, God’s presence among mere mortals was another side of this coin of enabling all members of the human race to execute this mandate with distinction.  The main limiting factor for us as human beings to achieve our destiny in this regard is the fact that away from God’s presence we are all vulnerable because we were made from the dust of the earth.  In fact the adversary exploited this gap to further his own ambition and hunger for power.  Satan knew what most of us often take for granted.  Jesus used the following parable in John 15: 1-8 to explain to us why we can not be productive and effective in our mandate to lead without God as the source of our capacity to lead.  Here is the crux of the matter:  God’s invitation through Christ is, “Live in Me. Make your home in Me just as I do in you … separated, you can’t produce a thing.” From this strong statement, Christ makes a disclosure of the secret of achievement of success in your destiny and mine.  In fact when Adam cut himself off from God, everything in the universe was negatively impacted.  To this end, when God pronounced His sentence on Adam immediately after he sinned, God said:  “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from … the very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground you will be working in pain all your life long.  The ground will spout thorns and weeds, you’ll get your food the hard way, planting and tilling and harvesting, sweating in the fields from dawn to dust.” (Message Bible Translation).  Let explore for the first time in print, the comprehensive implications of living with God in our midst and the repercussions of ignoring His presence.  Did God plan to be alienated and distant from human beings?  The answer is definitely not affirmative.  On the contrary the Scriptures presents a God who want to be inseparable from people. In fact God attested this fact to Moses to convey to his people.  In Leviticus 26:11,12 God spoke his intention very clear to Moses when He said, “I will set my dwelling place in and among you, My Soul shall not separate itself from you. And I will walk in and among you, and will be your God, and shall be my people.”   Many other prophets captured this mystery using different words.  In this regard prophets of old used the ‘Presence of God’ and the ‘Glory of God’ interchangeably.  For instance, the Prophet Isaiah stated ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of His Glory’ (Isaiah 6:3). Is it possible for the whole earth to be full of the Presence of God or the Glory of God and human beings are unaware of it?  In Genesis 28:16 the Bible gives us an answer to this question, when it states: “When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”  The fact is that the earth is today full of the Glory of God and as humans we are mostly unaware of it.  God only uses revelation knowledge to show His Glory to any human being that is desperate to experience His Presence.  This is the reason the Scriptures in Habakkuk 2:14 declare that “(for) the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.”  Through this book I seek to impart revelation knowledge of the fullness of Presence of the Glory of God around you, right here on earth now, so that you can experience God for yourself.  


·         Turning PointDiscovering the Power of the Blessing

There will be no turning point unless we first ask ourselves difficult questions.  Do nations have a destiny?  Are nations fulfilling their destinies?  If not, what are the stumbling blocks hindering nations to fulfil their purpose?  Why are some nations at the top while others are at the bottom?  What are the determining factors for the status quo? Why does defeat, poverty, diseases, underdevelopment, and so many other hardships that hinder many people and so many nations from reaching their full potential exist?  Where do these aberrations and hardships come from?  Are these adversities a permanent feature of human existence?  If not how and when can they be lifted, so that every nation and every human being can become what they were intended to be?  What can an individual or a nation do to go back to the path that leads into the fulfilment of destiny?   What is the original perfect blueprint for human life on earth? Is there a roadmap for the individual person and or a nation to retract from going in the wrong direction and find the true course in the original blueprint that guarantee the attainment of destiny? To investigate the purpose of life and the purpose of the universe, we will begin first by establishing the origin of the universe and understanding its design.  We will interrogate the design of the universe to find out if it was meant to support the destiny of humanity or not.  Then we will also trace the creation of mankind and unpack the plan for the blessing or the provision of the intangible as well as the material means intended to enable mankind to fulfil destiny.  We will also look at what caused mankind to loose access to the provision and how the ultimate assignment was derailed.  It is the release of the conditions that resist the blessing or provision that I call the curse, that have caused much suffering and even the threat to the survival of the human race.  The advent of the struggle for survival where mankind tries harder and harder to gain access to the provision meant to enable the fulfilment of his purpose is what we will also decode.  The understanding of the latter will help nations not only to reckon with the hurdles and their causes, but also what  nations need to do, and also what individuals need to do to get the curse broken.   The dichotomy of the blessing and the curse is more than anything the fundamental underlying determining factor of whether any people will achieve their destiny or not. The concepts of the blessing and the curse invariably impact the entire superstructure of human existence.  In the social realm, the life span of each individual on earth including infant mortality rates derives from this dichotomy.  For instance under the curse diseases become incurable with the discovery of cures simply non-existent.  The curse puts a limitation on the human mind so that it can not operate at optimum making inaccessible exploitation of creative ideas.  Since the curse is a constraint on the productivity of the earth, food security and the actual production of food become greatly hampered.  Consequently those under the scope of the curse can only hope to become dependent consumers excluded by its default from wealth creation with estrangement from ownership of the means of production.  The other area where this phenomenon is the determinant of outcomes is around the safety and security of individuals, communities, tribes, nations, and countries.  The blessing in this instance guarantees security, defence, and military victory in the face of threats.  However, the curse by default is a perfect guarantee for defeat. Furthermore, aberrations like armed conflicts, invasion with military occupation and erosion of personal security derives from the curse.  What I am saying is that the discourse of this writing can not be limited to religion as the nature of health, agriculture, military defence, the economy, industry, optimum utilization of the human mind, and even politics, are all predetermined by either the state of blessing or the curse. Putting all this together, we will understand the blueprint of life in the universe and how best to sustain it.  Nations will at this stage be challenged to do an introspection to check their alignment with the blueprint of the destiny of nations.  We will also identify what derailed nations need to do in order to undertake corrective actions and resume the journey to fulfil destiny.  To reiterate, in order to understand life in the universe, we will examine the external factors in the universe to see what threats continue to force destiny to elude many nations today; look internally for opportunities in the supply chain for the provision of mankind, then we will take stock of where nations find themselves today due to the adverse materials conditions of the curse.   Invariably this process will help us to identify the gaps between what is and what could be.  In addition, the corrective actions necessary to narrow and close the gap between humanity’s current point of departure and the final achievement of destiny through accessing the blessing of provision will provide individuals and developing nations with a blueprint of destiny unlocking the possibility of accessing life without limitations.  Abundant life is a possibility for any one that joins the search that my journey in this writing will explore


·         Building According to God’s Blueprint – A Blueprint for Manifesting the Presence of God in the Church

This writing encapsulates my personal insight into the final move of God where builders are raised to build the House of God or what we call the Church for the sole purpose of the manifestation of the Presence of God.  As we come to the close of the age, God is raising men and women that are consumed by the call to be co-workers with God, to prepare and build a place of habitation for the Glory of God.  This move of God will encompass all the nations on the planet earth.  In this move of God, He will reveal the blueprints of His House to those called to build the house of God to be a habitation for His Presence.  Many societies have build dwellings from ancient times.  I believe that God allowed almost all human beings to acquire experience of building houses so as to infer the skills acquired into the spiritual realm where the construction of the house of God is taking place.  What we have learned in building physical houses is that there are various phases which require specific expertise.  For instance, first determining the purpose of the dwelling (what is the building going to be used for), then surveying of the land, then architectural design phase, then structural design phase, then quantity surveying phase, and the gathering of all the necessary building materials. When all the requirements have been met, then the architect, the bricklayers, the plumbers, the electricians, and roofing experts will be assembled to study the architectural design. Only when all the different skills have consensus understanding of the plan can the work commence.  The house plan is the standard that each and every worker must adhere to.  From those who dig the foundations, the bricklayers, and the roof experts, etc.  As we answer the call to build God a place of habitation, He is the chief architect given that the purpose of the house is for occupation by God.  The word that we will use to understand the plan of the House of God is pattern.  The word pattern has several meanings that could include words like plan, design, blueprint, and fashion.  Pattern therefore is prerequisite to transform ideas and concepts into tangible reality.  Pattern only requires purpose as input, viz. the original intent or reason for the existence of a product.  The output of a pattern is a finished product or service. The plan for each product must be suitable for the specific purpose of the respective product.  Therefore, purpose dictates the pattern after which a product must be created.  However, each purpose is need or demand driven.  When a need has been identified, a product or a service must be designed to meet that need. In order to have a predictable outcome a plan is imperative.    Therefore our writing will encompass the impartation of an understanding of pre-requisites and requirements for building the house of God.  The House of God is not a physical building made with man’s hand.  Rather, human beings individually and as a collective were created to be a House for the God’s Glory on earth.  The latter move of God will involve God moving into His House on earth.  Both the Kingdom of God will be advanced supernaturally by the Power of God emanating from the Glory of God in the earthly Human Sanctuary.  It is from the Human Sanctuary that the Father God will perform mighty signs and wonders, creative miracles, healings, deliverances, and supernatural provision among the peoples of the earth that avail themselves for this move of God.



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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Here is a blueprint for your success

Why do I think my book on innovation creativity will help you to make strides on your journey to success?  I believe this book is a blueprint for your success in life.  The starting point towards success is knowing where you come from and where you are going. Not only that but, for your success journey you also need a roadmap that I call a blueprint in this writing. As you journey towards your destiny, a blueprint becomes a roadmap that ensures that you reach your destination.  The other most important pre-requisite in this equation is innovation.  Why is innovation important? Whereas as human beings we can use everything that already exists, the latter is not all that is to exist. Innovation closes the gap between what is still to be and what is already existing in present reality. Therefore, innovation enables you to go beyond the known, and the seen to transcend into the future, and bring thae future into your moment.  Innovation gives you the ability to see what is not yet seen.  When you reach this point, you are at the brink of tapping and releasing your creative potential. What is ceativity? Among other things, creativity is when you capture the unseen from your perception and transform it into a visible design for a new thing, service, product, or reality.  All humans have been endowed with this unique potential.  This potential helps us to be creative.  Creativity empowers humans not to be at the mercy of current reality, because it places alternatives and new options to change our circumstances within our reach. It is of paramount importance, because without this potential, we may not be able to change our circumstances.  Consequently, the inability to change our circumstances may leave us feeling trapped and enslaved.  In such a state, most people invariably cannot help it but to be left to feel helpless.  The next worse thing in a vicious circle of helplessness is to cave in or just give up on life.  At that point one becomes a victim of circumstances. Is a turning point is possible form that despair?  What if you knew that there are unknown ways, alternatives, approaches, solutions, realities beyond the obvious?  Besides, if you only rely on what already exists, you are in the same boat with a majority of the world's 7 billion inhabitants.  Here the competition for the scarce resources is very stiff.  It is survival of the fittest and winners are always in the minority. What happens to losers?  Losers are relegated to poverty and ultimately to extinction.  On the contrary, innovation opens a new chapter.  It enables you to see what you  and others are not seeing yet.  If you work tirelessly on discovering the blueprint of that unseen reality, you are closer to bringing into existence something that is unique.  You patent is about to be born.  Innovation brings endless possibilities to change everything in your favor.  Because through innovation you go where no one has ever gone before, it brings you where you now face less competition.  It is your innovation designs that will ultimately make you a master of your own destiny.  This is what my book, Blueprint Centric Innovation & Creativity espouses. It envisions a new specie of world changers that know what others don’t know, that do what others can’t do, in order to get results that others can’t get.  The opposite of innovation is doing the same things that never worked, yet hope for different outcomes each time. Sounds like insanity?  Precisely. On the contrary, innovation is doing things differently in order to achieve extraordinary and superior outcomes.  Need to find out more on a blueprint of success today? More adventures of illumination await you in the pages of my book on innovation & creativity.  Find your innovation roadmap in this book that you can now purchase by following the links below.
  Book Title: Blueprint Centric Innovation & Creativity
  Publisher: American Book Publishing Group
  ISBN-10: 1589826426
  ISBN-13: 978-1589826427
  Paperback: 296 pages 
  Language: English

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Other books by Eliyah Khumalo:
2. Ultimate Spirituality : www.ybapublishing.com
3. Turning Point : http://www.facebook.com/Blueprint.Online.Store
4. In Pursuit of Ingenuity in Leadership : http://www.facebook.com/Blueprint.Online.Store
5. In Pursuit of a Blueprint : www.blueprintinternational.yolasite.com

or order your e-book copy via e-mail: elizabethkhumalo@lantic.net

Monday, July 9, 2012

Review of my book on Innovation


The starting point towards success in life is knowing where you come from and where you are going. You ask, why do I need a blueprint? As you journey towards your destiny in life, a blueprint becomes a roadmap that ensures that you reach your destination.  The second most important word in this equation is innovation.  Whereas as human beings we can use everything that already exists, the latter is not all that is to exist or all that ever shall be. Therefore, we continually need to go beyond the known, and the seen to transcend limitations on our own potential, and bring things that did not exist into existance.  This helps us to activate our torpid creativity.  A blueprint, innovation,and creativity are each of paramount importance, because without this, we may not be able to change our circumstances.  Consequently, the inability to change circumstance leaves many people feeling trapped and enslaved.  In such a state, one invariably cannot help it but feel helpless.  The next worse thing is to cave in or just give up on life.  You them become a victim of circumstances.  But what if you knew that there are unknown ways, alternative approaches, solutions, realities beyond the obvious?  If you only rely on what already exists, you are in the same boat with a majority of the world's 7 billion inhabitants.  In that boat the competition for the scarce resources is very stiff.  Life in that boat is survival of the fittest. Here winners are always in the minority.  By default the majority are losers. What is even worse is that losers are relegated to poverty and ultimately to extinction.  This is what will happen to the majority of the human population if we ignore the innovation clarion call that I make in this book.  Extinction! On the contrary innovation opens a new chapter.  It enables you to see what others are not seeing yet.  If you work tirelessly on discovering the blueprint of that unseen reality, you are closer to bringing into existence something that is unique.  Your patent is about to be born.  Everything will at this stage change in your favor.  You will at this satge be facing less competition because you have gone where no one has ever gone before.  Innovation transforms you into a master of your own destiny.  This is what this book, Blueprint Centric Innovation & Creativity espouses. It's intention is to transform people into a new specie of world changers that know what others don’t know, doing what others can’t do, to get results that others can’t get.
  Book Title: Blueprint Centric Innovation & Creativity
  Publisher: American Book Publishing Group
  ISBN-10: 1589826426
  ISBN-13: 978-1589826427
  Paperback: 296 pages 
  Language: English

This book is available online at Amazon:

www.amazon.com/Blueprint-Centric-Innovation-Creativity-Creative/dp/1589826426/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1

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Other books by Eliyah Khumalo:

2. Ultimate Spirituality
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3. Turning Point
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4. In Pursuit of Ingenuity in Leadership
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5. In Pursuit of a Blueprint – Discover a Roadmap for Your Life (Coming Soon)
www.blueprintinternational.yolasite.com

or order your e-book copy via e-mail: elizabethkhumalo@lantic.net
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Monday, June 18, 2012

My Letter to President Jacob G. Zuma


Dear President Jacob G. Zuma,

Mr. President please allow me to make the following proposal on a matter that I believe is key on the objective of our government to achieve a better life for all in our country.  The matter is about government role or involvement in the pricing of goods and services in our country.  Pricing of goods and services in an unequal society like ours can be a tool that can be used for both good and bad.  The implication is that pricing can be used to deepen the poverty of the ‘have nots’ while the ‘have’ due their material or capital advantage may continue to enlarge their privileged vintage. The question is what instrument of state can be used to establish or to verify the credibility of pricing? For instance, the recent e-toll issue brought to the fore the element of fairness of the proposed tariffs and question how they were determined, and by who?  Unfortunately in most capitalist societies players in the market system are both the players and the referee as far as pricing is concerned.  In most cases, there is a total lack of transparency on how a given price was arrived at.  In addition, the upward swings and the volatility of pricing only works in favour of the sellers while for buyers who are mostly members of the public it is “take it or leave it.”  There is a need for our country to have an independent body that has a mandate to calculate and or perform verification of prices of goods and services using transparent, objective, scientific methods.  Beyond price fixing and other anti-competitive pricing behaviours, such a body should have a mandate to investigate the role of pricing in enslaving our people to poverty.  Pricing left to market forces makes affordability of goods and services a key component for the creation and worsening of poverty. The body must be empowered to demand transparency of all price movements determined by the sellers of goods and services, corrective action of unfair exorbitant prices, and to issue penalties to deter corrupt pricing practises.



With this brief problem state, I propose the following solution.  That the President establish an independent but centralized pricing commission made up of experts, scientists, professionals, and representatives from labour, business and the civil society including the poorest of the poor.  Among others, the terms of reference for such a commission may encompass but not limited to the following:  

·         Advocate the use of pricing to make a positive and measurable contribution to both the alleviation and the eradication of poverty.

·         Regulate price movements for both increases and decreases; for example when the cost of fuel goes up, sellers increase their prices but rarely adjust downwards when the input costs including the cost of fuel tumbles down.

·         Interrogations of all the justifications of all price hikes.

·         Enforce transparency around cost build-up and price increases especially for basic necessities, like groceries, transportation, clothing, petrol, etc.

·         Independent, objective, and scientific calculation of the value of land, passenger cars, tractors, shares, etc.

·         A centralized pricing function that may merge all existing pricing bodies in treasury, competitions commission, etc. into one body empowered by legislation to perform all the above mentioned responsibilities including:

o   Evaluation

o   Adjudication

o   Price determination

o   Approval of steep price increases (that fall above the inflation target band).

Hoping that Mr. President you find my thoughts on this subject in order. In the final analyses user charges for the government’s infrastructure development program will benefit significant credibility when they carry the sanction of an independent body like the one that I have proposed to the president in this letter.  In my view most of the scepticism around the road user charges for the e-tolling system in Gauteng could have been pre-empted by implied objectivity as per my proposal. Fortunately, because of my book that I had written on the subject of INNOVATION, I can make a contribution by way of this proposal on how a credible pricing way forward can come about for our nation.  This proposal is for me just one way of applying the innovation concepts I written into the Innovation book project, which is also available online on the web links below.

Best Regards,

Eliyah T. F. Khumalo

Phone: +27 76 582 6501

Fax:        086 578 4170


Luke 6:40 “A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.”


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