Funeral Characters And Issues
Monday, May 24, 2021
By technology I don’t mean things like playing a transistor radio.
Technology nowadays is much more sinister than that. For instance it is not entirely farfetched for someone to whisper and ask you something like ‘What is the hashtag for this funeral?’ We are currently waddling through the fourth industrial revolution. Officially, that is. Some countries are already nudging the 5th industrial revolution though but of course since this is an African country we are still stuck in the moat of the 3rd industrial revolution. Government and his ally COVID-19 has somewhat party-pooped funerals and relegated them to a gathering akin to that of people sharing a watermelon.
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...