Crazy week

In Molepolole we had teachers running at breakneck speed, fleeing schoolchildren who were breaking school windows, breaking teachers’ vehicles’ windows and giving the teachers themselves a hiding they had never given the same riotous students.

Imagine seeing a dog running for dog’s life chased by a hare, wouldn’t that be hilarious? Crazy? Well it happened in Molepolole the week that was. When dog bites man, it is not news.

But when man bites dog it’s big news. Crazy! What has gone wrong in our world where you expect the sun to rise in the east and set in the west, where a child is born of a mother, not the other way round, the world where winter follows autumn, autumn follows summer and summer follows spring? Is it all part of climate change or the tragic El Nino phenomenon? True, in our universe nothing is static, things are in flux, dynamic. Except we poor creatures of the universe are born to live and die; that apparently we cannot change. Or, is it? Perhaps we are all soon to live forever to make this crazy world even crazier!

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Routine child vaccination imperative

The recent Vaccination Day in Motokwe, orchestrated through collaborative efforts between UNICEF, USAID, BRCS, and the Ministry of Health, underscores a commendable stride towards fortifying child health services.The painful reality as reflected by the Ministry of Health's data regarding the decline in routine immunisation coverage since the onset of the pandemic, is a cause for concern.It underscores the urgent need to address the...

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