Apparently a week ago or there about, US troops based in Afghanistan/CIA agents (depending on which report you read) in cohorts with their Afghan counterparts, attacked and killed execution style, eleven school children including an 11 year old boy, in a raid for Al Qaeda. I don’t want to torture you with the horrid details of how they went about doing this, See here and here. A couple of days later, a Taliban suicide bomber who was used as a double-agent detonated himself in a group meeting of . . . Continue reading this article

I have applied ‘consultation’ and ‘participation’ to mean the same thing, for necessarily driving the point that in the context of general interaction with communities, through going consultation must mean participation. For some time now I’ve been troubled by the [mis]use of the word participation. The thing is, I suspect, I tend to take things too literal at times. As a matter of attitude, I plunge myself head first into what I belief to be true and sincere. And I tend to harbor so . . . Continue reading this article

As you will realise by the end of this posting, it has been a rather fiendish task to put a title to this piece. Merely because, as the SG of the ANC once said, the political atmosphere is polluted. It is so polluted that I know I risk being misunderstood. But this won’t be my first. It is no lesser a risk given the context of this very piece. But it is one that needs to be taken nonetheless. And I have intentionally used “he” and “he” interchangeably. So here goes; The years of the . . . Continue reading this article