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Everyone will be forgotten

Ten years ago, one of my brothers who is a little over two years older than me, a teacher by profession and a raconteur par excellence, confided in me that he doesn’t want to die because the dead are forgotten.

That view, which I must admit, sounded oddish at the time it raptured my ear drum, has since mushroomed in value and found a special place in the deepest recesses of my psyche.

Principally because of the weight of its truth! When one’s moment of influence is in the rear-view mirror, if legacy building never featured in his personal brand philosophy, it is possible to only remember the noise he makes post his hour of consequence and little of anything of his contribution to society.

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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