Secret Millionaire

I watched a program on BBC knowledge this week. It was called Secret Millionaire changed my life, and it looked like it was a follow up on a previous series where millionaires disguise themselves as everyday guys and go and live in a poor community. They then have to get involved in community projects in order to assess who they are going to give money to at the end of the experiment. Then at the end they reveal to the people they have met that they are millionaires and they give them money towards their community based charities. It was the single most impressive TV show I have watched ever. The people getting the money were obviously overwhelmed and cried, the millionaires giving the money were so happy they cried, I was so touched I cried.

That made me think about South Africa. If only the hundreds of millionaires we have here, both old money and recently acquired, would do something like this, without a TV show, just out of their own, we might be able to alleviate the poverty problem we have. I then got all my senses back and realised that in South Africa, we are way to greedy to do something like that. Millionaires all work very hard to get where they are and sharing that wealth would NEVER happen because they can't understand why everybody cant accomplish what they have.

I want to suggest this TV show to a South African producer and see what happens. Maybe we can get some people the desperate financial help they need. Alternatively we need to get rid of Capitalism and instate a system of Socialism. Share the wealth!!!