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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.

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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