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Moron-metre Pushing Up

Tech advances have made life a lot easier for everyone though older folks - with heads and hearts stuck in the 60s buckets – have struggled with the fast pace of technoloy.

For instance you can send a letter to someone in Timbuktu that they can receive instantly in real time. No grumpy, tired mailmen who sometimes don’t turn up for work but instead the sick note always shows up.

Sick notes are not known to deliver mail as everyone knows. Through the beautiful technology of GPS you can turn up at the doorstep of your heartthrob right in the labyrinth of the webby Johannesburg metropolis without asking for directions from a potential hijacker. These are good times in our lives. And it is going to get better. Bill Gates has promised it.

Editor's Comment
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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