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Schools Closure Extension Welcome, But....

After a long struggle, the government finally acceded to proposals made by teachers unions to temporarily close schools with the announcement made mid-July that teachers and students will go on a school break until re-opening on August 17, 2021.

Fast forward! August 17 has arrived, but there still does not seem to be a plan in place that the government is sharing of how it intends to deal with the long-awaited vaccination of teachers. If anything else, the government seems a bit evasive on whether teachers will be prioritised when it comes to vaccinations.

The call for schools to close was clearly to make way for teachers to be vaccinated. Now it is beginning to look like the last month was just another school break and nothing more.

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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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