I Am My Own Enemy, Others Are Just Pawns In My Battlefield

One day my father, Athulang Nicodimus Ngwigwa said to me; “You are your own biggest enemy, do not go around imputing anyone for what is happening in your life because it is all entirely upon your reactions and actions”.

These words started to jar my mind even though I lacked understanding until I faced some unbearable moments in my life. The agony was a results of how I responded to the challenges I faced and was too naïve to comprehend the mission in arrears.

Time has control over our lives. We do not choose what it throws at us and have no other alternative but to undergo the experience. It makes people pawns on the life chess board. It is not expensive to move nor lose a pawn in the chess game. All that they do, positive or negative, ought to catapult us into another dimension that life time has arranged for us.

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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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