Acceptance speech by Dingake as Chancellor of ABM University College
Friday, November 27, 2020
Justice Key Dingake
This momentous and historic virtual graduation would not be as great and glamorous as it is, had it not been for the hard work of the Chairperson of the University Council, the Vice Chancellor, management, staff and students. I know the huge logistical challenges of organising a virtual graduation. The fact that they managed to pull it off deserves our sincere thanks.
Programme director, I consider this day to be an opportunity to share with you some aspects of my life and to pay tribute to all those people who have helped me to become who I am and to give you a broad-brush of the University we want to become.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...