Afternoon tea at the Four Corners
Sunday, May 03, 2015
In a rarity, the wildlife of Kasane had a feel of what the fuss is about staring. Being the traditional centres of attraction in the northwestern tourism heartland, the wildlife are used to being gawked at for hours on end by enamoured visitors.
Last week, they returned the favour, gazing at the hundreds of delegates who crammed into the tourist town for three days of intensive, high level negotiations on ending the $10 billion per annum industry that is illegal trade in wildlife.
Whilst many citizens put trust in their leaders that they are tackling one of the worst curses that can befall a country, the public has lost trust after all the cases seemed not to go anywhere.As the saying goes, ‘corruption is a cancer that eats away at the fabric of society’; corruption affects effective governance.Corruption affects delivery of services to the public and also crumbles most systems meant to assist citizens who are very...