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What a horrible year!

Finally, the sun is lugubriously dipping into 2021’s horizon. In just another eight days, the light will fade on this year, marking the end of one COVID year, and vividly casting a low, enormous, haunting, and menacing shadow on the next. As we guardedly draw the curtains on this year, many would agree that 2021 stands out as the longest year in modern history, at least in the recent past. Reminiscent of Murphy’s law, everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong.

Unemployment continued to rise amidst an environment characterised by the collapse of businesses, many at SME level. Despite all efforts expended in the sourcing of vaccines by African governments, developed countries continued to selfishly hoard vaccines, leaving millions in developing and emerging economies exposed and vulnerable.

Ironically, statistics reveal that it is the inhabitants of developed countries who disproportionately fell to the ugly monster, abruptly demised in unimaginably high numbers, principally because of a strong antivaxx community that was deceived by the proliferation of subversive conspiracy theories from medical professionals and laymen alike.

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Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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