Adults behaving badly..
Monday, March 27, 2017
You know that feeling when someone makes a very bad speech and you grind your teeth because it feels like you are the one doing that, and you are silently praying that they stop? It felt like that. The clip ended after what felt like eternity, but not before more expletives were hurled.
After seeing debates on this hot topic on social media last week, I just had to find this video clip. At first I was not interested; it is only after I heard that minors were involved that I took interest. If ever there was justification for the saying; age isn’t always proportional to maturity, this was it. Growing more than a meter tall, storing excess fat in all the wrong places of your body with a big mouth to match doesn’t necessarily mean you are an adult and that you have wisdom.
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...