When home is not best
Friday, December 05, 2008
Home is not best. Thinking of going home does not generate any excitement in me and any other Zimbabwean, perhaps with the exception of businesspeople.
The festive season is here when many Zimbabweans are supposed to go home for holidays but the news is not good. Things have come to a grinding halt back home and everything has collapsed. Gone are the days when one would really miss home especially over the Christmas period when relatives would gather and enjoy a feast.
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...