Chiefs are misdirecting themselves

I find it severely ironical and farcical that members of Ntlo Ya Dikgosi are reported to be extremely critical of a section of The Children's Rights Bill that calls for the inclusion of biological fathers' names on their children's birth certificates.

Who would have thought that the very people who inherit their titles by mere virtue of being their Fathers' sons would be the ones to so virulently and indignantly deny others the same right?

Our chiefs do not even need to lift a finger to get the lucrative lifetime jobs that they inherit from their fathers while some of us common people graduate with degrees but even fail to get hired as special constables, so they should be the last people to criticise this bill. Fathers' names must appear on birth certificates, firstly to encourage a spirit of responsibility and duty of care among Sires, secondly for legal reasons to clarify paternity suits and chieftainship squabbles, thirdly for medical reasons as some conditions are inherited (these days, family trees are provided even for animals such as pedigree bulls and dogs as a health aid, so why should the same right be deprived human beings?). Note that these are just three examples; the advantages have not been exhausted.

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