A teacher asked her third grade class to name things that ended with "tor" and that also ate things. The first little boy said, "Alligator" "Very good James, that's a big word." The second boy said, "Predator" "Yes, that's
another big word Alan, Well done." Little Mark says,....
I always love your analysis but on this you are dead wrong! The ECKβs failures provided the spark that ignited the tinder. But the tinderβunresolved historical injustices, ethnicised patronage politics, impunity, and weak institutions,had been accumulating for years. Blaming only the βcompromised ECK chairmanβ ignores these structural issues and risks letting other actors dead and alive..by this I mean politicians who incited or organised violence, or who benefited from the status quo, OFF THE HOOK
My wife asked me to delete a voicemail without listening to it.
She'd accidentally sent it to my phone instead of her sister's.
"Just delete it," she said. "It's embarrassing."
I was about to.
Then she added,
"Promise me you won't listen."
She'd never asked me for a promise over something so small.
I started wondering why.
That night, I couldn't stop thinking about it.
The voicemail was still sitting there.
Unread.
Unplayed.
The next morning, her sister called me.
She didn't know about the voicemail.
She just asked,
"Has she told you yet?"
I asked what she meant.
There was a long silence.
Then she said,
"Forget I said anything."
Before hanging up, she added,
"Just... don't make any big decisions until you talk to her."
Now I had two choices.
Keep the promise I'd made...
Or listen to the voicemail that suddenly felt like the only honest answer.
That evening, my wife came home, sat beside me, and saw the notification was still there.
"You listened to it, didn't you?"
I hadn't.
Not yet.
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