Breaking free from self-doubt
Monday, March 30, 2015
When he had left me for a while I executed plans of success. But he despised the smell of success, he smelt it from afar thus came quickly and threw his scent. Self-doubt engulfed me, he over whelmed me.
I tried to repulse the thought of giving up, the spell that he put on me, the spell of despair-it called to be heard, it said to me, “You can’t be it, you can’t go there, you are not good enough, you can’t, you can’t!”, words that make you feel cold and little or worse, worthless.
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...