PRACTICAL PRIVILEGE: Definition

At our most basic, each of us has a combination of unearned advantages and disadvantages. These are based on various factors, including place in birth order, body type, complexion, the opportunity to freely express one’s gender and identity, the relationship to spoken or written work and education, parent's place of origin, parent's relationship with Setswana and English, religious beliefs, economic status, sexuality, and sexual orientation.

This list is by no means exhaustive of the factors  considered when contemplating one’s unearned benefits and hindrances.

These pluses and detriments are of course affected by other aspects, and may vary from one moment to the other. They are dependent on who we are speaking with, where we are, who we are seeing, our gender and often normative conditioning, as well as what we are required to do at a certain juncture.

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Routine child vaccination imperative

The recent Vaccination Day in Motokwe, orchestrated through collaborative efforts between UNICEF, USAID, BRCS, and the Ministry of Health, underscores a commendable stride towards fortifying child health services.The painful reality as reflected by the Ministry of Health's data regarding the decline in routine immunisation coverage since the onset of the pandemic, is a cause for concern.It underscores the urgent need to address the...

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