Partisan politics serves ruling party politicians
Friday, May 08, 2020
The ruling party used its numbers to ignore valuable contributions to the State of Emergency regulations amendment from the opposition.
It is a known fact that a lot of people have not paid their rentals and that a lot of landlords have not received their dues since the spectre of COVID-19 befell the nation. One would have expected that Parliament would have considered stopping landlords from evicting tenants that cannot afford rentals as other sectors were helped in different ways by other entities including the government itself!
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...