Are We A Dismissive Nation?
Monday, July 22, 2019
Recently Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) boss, Peter Magosi called a press conference and informed journalists that the President’s life might be in danger, which was brought about by a number of incidents that occurred during some of the Head of State’s travels.
As soon as different media houses posted the information on their social media pages, Facebook became quite busy, with most people dismissing the information shared by the DIS boss during the press conference as propaganda. Ironically, some of the individuals are the very same people who usually blame the police for not acting in good time to deal with crime, accusing law enforcement officers of only taking action after a crime has already been committed.
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...