Politics; not so stimulating
Monday, October 26, 2015
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.
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...