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Mindset change: Re chenchile

The duty of presidents is to rally their nation with whatever resonates with his/her fancy. Usually they hope the masses will embrace their message and bring it to life.

Obviously this also arms the naysayers to spew vitriol and trash his campaign. The current rallying cry by our President goes something like ‘Re chenchile’ But hold on, we have not changed as yet.

Until we all as a country work with SPEDU speed then we have not quite changed in the way the President has envisaged. For those who don’t know what SPEDU speed is let me explain it. SPEDU once budged into the Guinness Book of Records faster than the acrid sulphur-laced BCL smoke invades ones nostrils as they enter the mining town.

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Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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