QUESTION TIME
Friday, August 03, 2007
Although drought was a serious negative factor for anyone seriously contemplating farming in the 1960s and 1970s, there were other factors that had their own influence on the decisions of young learners about their futures.
To some extent, the policies of the Protectorate Administration in the 1960s, and later were aimed at securing successful school leavers into being officials of first, the Department of Agriculture, and after independence, of the Ministry. Agricultural demonstrators represented the lower ranks of the Department and later the Ministry, and did not necessary need "O" levels.
It is a clear signal that the government’s purse is empty and that our own behaviour has left veterinary officials fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. We have been here before. During COVID-19, many of us thought we knew better. We ignored simple rules, we carried on as if the danger was someone else’s problem, and the virus took lives and left our economy on its knees. We are still broke from that experience. Yet now, with FMD...