SHIKO J NTSOKO
I had no problems to involve myself in politics. Maybe it's your thinking that tells you that one couldn't join politics at that age at that time. Every person when he grows up has his aims. When I was a student I used to see some of the things that was not supposed to happen to me, that is why I said, when Mr Brozidsky came to us we showed him a student that there was a laboratory where they could conduct some practicals, their were no chemicals, we didn't know about chemicals like sodium chloride that is ordinary salt that you use at home. You wouldn't know, one didn't know how to use the sodium chloride to improve some of the things that you were supposed to improve and one other thing is that there was another room  that as big as half of this hall and you wouldn't even find a book in that hall and it was regarded as a library, and as an intelligent person I could see that those things were wrong. Even when you had aims, even if you were small we had problems as parents that younger children can do anything for themselves. Even if you are young, you have aims.
 If I can tell you the truth, when I promised my parents of being a doctor, I was 12 years old. What I'm happy about for is that part of what I wanted to do, one of my son is, one of my son followed what I wanted to do, he had a degree of what I wanted to study, that what makes me happy. Maybe he has fulfilled one of the promises that I made to my father, because one of my son has a degree of what I intended to become. So you can see that there is always a challenge in life, even if you are young.  
 It's not only that you have to listen to your parents, even a child has his own intentions or objectives in life.