Everyone has a right to their own opinions and as writers, to our own opinion columns. Actually, it is only right to say that no one has a right to ignorance or to be ignorant.
Read MoreThe Internet has given freedom of speech its most extensive highway of expression and evoked those who had been reluctant to speak out to share their sentiments more openly and publicly. But I got to
Read MoreWhy our youths are shunning sports? It is actually very easy to point fingers at sports ministries and say that these are run in an amateur manner or issues with restrictions on movement is making
Read MoreCovering breaking news can be fun. There is that adrenaline rush you get from wanting to report and write your story as quickly as possible. You feel this unmatched sense of success after finishing a
Read MoreOf creative and colourful thinking. I have been recently exposed to groups that call for openness and plurality while being increasingly defensive and intolerant. My conclusion has always been that we, as a society, need
Read MoreIt’s strange to watch the news coverage of the unemployment crisis in South Africa, Zimbabwe or anywhere else right now. The word “jobs” has become a simplistic mantra. We need to create jobs! Where are
Read MoreWhile I may not have been very conscious at the early times of my life about them, I somehow recall a thread of people and events. From my earliest years, I remember the politicians, winners
Read MoreLighting a candle rather than cursing the darkness is a personal goal I have adopted for several years. It was not so for many decades before. I was like most other people who are quick
Read MoreMy dad recently asked me if, in our lifetime, we would ever see the change we have wanted for our country. It was not a rhetorical question, nor a flippant one. The inquiry came from
Read MoreI am often appalled at how one of the wealthiest countries in the world, not with money but natural blessings, can host such levels of poverty. If nature has been so kind to us, then
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