Of stranded GIRLS...
Monday, July 13, 2015
That notwithstanding, even though the story may have been just an excellent piece of fiction, and credit to whoever hatched it, reality is that such incidences do happen in real life, and in this country. The whole issue here isn’t so much about two imaginary damsels in distress having being stranded in Durban, it is more to do with some female’s over dependence tendencies on males, or to put it more bluntly, on total strangers!
Assuming that the story is indeed correct, what happened is still nothing out of the ordinary. In fact, most females, under oath or in a confessional booth, would reluctantly confess to having been in a similar situation in the past, only that their adventures didn’t make front page news!
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...