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An Independence to remember

Ahead of its 60th birthday next year, ironically known as the Diamond Jubilee, the country is experiencing the birth pains of an economic transformation whose urgency has grown over the decades.
Ahead of its 60th birthday next year, ironically known as the Diamond Jubilee, the country is experiencing the birth pains of an economic transformation whose urgency has grown over the decades.

Ahead of its 60th birthday next year, ironically known as the Diamond Jubilee, the country is experiencing the birth pains of an economic transformation whose urgency has grown over the decades. This Independence marks a turning point to remember, writes MBONGENI MGUNI

After a short-lived honeymoon period, the new government has spent most of the first year of its tenure battling to steer the country away from a fiscal cliff and lay the tent pegs of economic transformation.

Thanks to a confluence of adverse factors, President Duma Boko and his Cabinet are finding themselves dealing with budget and economic urgencies that have essentially pulled the rug from under their feet as the new administration.

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Human rights are sacred

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...

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