Isaac Makwala: Not For Children
Monday, May 17, 2021
This was not the speaker who routinely puts ministers in their place for various infractions like calling a point of order when there’s no point of order, calling a point of procedure when there is no point of procedure or even calling them to order because their barbers didn’t do a good job on their heads.
Nowadays because the Parliament is conducted virtually the head has become a very important grooming detail. Now those who know who Isaac Makwala is, would remember how some security men from Idiotville at some athletics meet tried to bar him from competing in a race because he had caught some highly contagious virus called norovirus.
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...