2020 Not so good a year
Victor Mulangisi
A year full of uncharacteristic vicissitudes worldwide.
Yet another year to express our gratitude to our unwavering clients within the broader spectrum of business who stood steadfast with the Kathu Gazette publication. Not an easy year by performance to individual companies and workers, where lockdowns ruled the roost to contain infection. Your support has been phenomenal in the midst of the unknown, we cherish every little droplet that was channeled towards our sustainability.
To my colleagues again, our oneness remains the rock that weathers the storms. Let’s keep up this spirit, God rejoices abundantly where oneness thrives. To the editorial team, I am exulted beyond measure by the sterling performance by Devine Rooi, Vicky Gericke and correspondents. It takes two to tango and this has made our effort, indispensable in many ways. Amanda Grobler your artistry in the designing department has been a vital weapon to our marketing clientele including our administrator Lizelle Badenhorst. To Judi Bolweg and Hester Nortje : Your guidance has been that of birds of a feather flock together and insurmountably cherished.
Our solace as an organisation and its broader community comes in the form of “the world catastrophe belongs to all and sundry”. We believe the year next will deliver answers so that we can simply reminisce this one as a gonner. Not so different from walking in the loamy and muddy marshes. Pulling one bare foot and then another but not covering the required distance to see oneself in the safer zone.
Wearing a mask to ensure that the nostrils give enough vapour and blur your sight has been a new experience. Those with slight visual impairment let their beloved friends pass unnoticed due to lack of precision as the main features of the face is disfigured by this cloth prescribed by the World Health Organisation. If your debtor passes unnoticed, there is a feeling that he pretends he does not see me. Briefly a strange way of living.
Wuhan is an infamous city worldwide since the beginning of Covid-19 outbreak for obvious reasons. I agree with the clever saying, “Deaf men go away with the blame”. In this case Wuhan, a mere city. Now the tug of war, “From China or America?”. The argument rages on. The wave of infections keeps lacerating the world on a second wave.
However, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Joe Biden seems to have broken the research jinx as great medical thinkers have, alongside his landslide electoral victory, declared a breakthrough in the medical vaccines that can suppress the conflagration of Covid-19. Pfizer and Moderna respectively have declared that a game-changer to the virus is in the offing with an efficacy of 95%.
Amnesia is loss of memory and amongst humanity we believe no one wants to remember the bitters and rigours of the pandemic once these vaccines become a success. And lastly let’s observe this pandemic’s prevention protocols and wish 2021 will be a year laden with hope and prosperity.
