Politics; not so stimulating

I read an interesting piece recently titled, ‘It’s the Economy, Stupid.” I did that in the midst of the hullabaloo of the recently announced Stimulus package. With my limited, almost non-existent knowledge of this subject of Economics, as a precaution I took time and read a bit on the subject, just so I don’t look stupid during the heated debates.

It’s a given that politicians can run off with your head, even mess up your common sense if you are naive. Now the thing with our politicians is that when they are voted into office, the only prerequisite seems to be that they should be alive at election time, everything else is secondary.

Nobody cares about whether you possess seven degrees like our uncle up North, nobody even cares that you scaled the primary school fence many years ago at tea break.

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Human rights are sacred

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...

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