Road carnage dampening the festive mood
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
In the next few days, many will be travelling to home villages to spend the festive season with their relatives, some of whom they last saw 12 months ago.
Christmas is time for families, and coming together with friends and family to reflect on the past year. It is time to look back and count on the successes, while also pondering on the challenges and failures.
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...