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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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