Tolerating the Indefensible

Without the slightest doubt ,the most extraordinary statement of the week came from the Water Utilities Corpration (WUC) Senior Communications and Public Relations Officer, Khumo Mugibelo in an article in The Voice headed “WUC is cheating Us.”

Mugibelo, it appears, said in regard to the WUC’s billing system,’ there is no possibility of wrongly charging customers.’ He made this quite outrageous claim when commenting on Scara Aphirie’s reproduced water bill, which showed that he owed P21,000. (The Voice November 24). Soon after I arrived in Mochudi, the people at the DR Mission told me about Rev. Willie Neethling who fell in 1897 from the church gable on which he had been working.

When people got to him as he lay dying on the ground, he had the time to make the very strange comment, ‘God makes no mistakes’, a comment which unsurprisingly entered immediately into DR church mythology.

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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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