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Question: My boss recently fired me from my job as a clerk. I want to quote the first part of the dismissal letter which he wrote to me, which has really annoyed me.

It reads "Dear Comrade,  As I charges you with assalt for dengering our company machines.  When I asses your case I hav to allow you to go away.  This is not your mother's house where you do whatever you want my boy.  Who do you think you are?  Please go away younger man.  Good bye.  You are not a nice boy but your wife eish that one is nice.  Tell her I say hallo".  

First, his promotion to be our supervisor was definitely through favouritism, as he is old and cannot write proper English.  They overlook guys who have gone to school, preferring 'Yes men'.  Second, are supervisors allowed to greet our wives in company memos?  Some of them look at our wives with love in their admiring and jealous eyes.  Where do I appeal so that my dismissal is reversed? 

Editor's Comment
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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