I always marvel at how many literate people actually qualify as functionally illiterate in my books. After marvelling for a long time, I think I have finally found a litmus test for determining who qualifies as functionally illiterate in South Africa.

My test is very simple! But to many organisations that understand the value of having front-end staff that is literate enough to understand that first impressions last and contribute to the overall reputation of the organisation, the test can prove to be as good as sliced bread.

This simple test is about spelling my name. If I tell a person that my name is Mathematics without the matics and my surname is Malema without the l and the person still requires me to spell my full name out, then my conclusion is the person is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (fill in the missing word or phrases 😉 .)

To all who may be interested in me helping them to weed out such people in their organisations, just ask me to call your office and leave a message for you. There will only be a small fee attached to it but consider it an investment of sort. First you get to know a little bit more about the person who would have answered the call. Secondly, you get to help cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit of a young beautiful person, named: Mathe Maema !