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.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...