BOMAID � It Could Have Done So Much Better

This is one column (blog) which I regret having to write. I do so, however, because I believe that our recent experience with BOMAID may well be replicated by others and that BOMAID, in so many ways, has our lives in its hands.

Today, we are all so very vulnerable and dependent on the goodwill and capabilities of others in respect of health, water, electricity supply and justice. But a preamble.

I believe that I must have been one of BOMAID’s earliest members but when I recently asked them to check, I was told that my wife became the family member in 1990 and that they had no record that I had ever been one!

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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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