Die belang van inspraak
Namibië sukkels al lank met inspraak.
Die gevolg is terugkrabbeling op besluite. Of duur hofsake waarvoor die belastingbetaler opdok.
Die afgelope week was daar weer twee voorbeelde hiervan.
Vrydagaand kondig die ministerie van onderwys, kuns en kultuur aan graad 11- en 12-leerlinge in Erongo se ingeperkte dorpe moet Maandag terugkeer. Sondagnamiddag laat verander die datum na Woensdag.
Die skouspelagtige ramp rondom ‘n “Covid-19-begraafplaas” in die woestyn naby Narraville vertoon al die klassieke simptome van die probleem. Ook moet gesondheidsowerhede verduidelik waarom die hergradering van risiko’s by begrafnisse en meer menslike prosedures hiervoor blykbaar nog nie in ons land geld nie.
As inspraak gebeur, vat ons dikwels te lank om besluite te neem en dit deur te voer.
Hiervan is voortgesette onsekerheid – en die vooruitsig van self erger ekonomiese skade – in toerisme ‘n getuie. Met bedbesettings benede vyf persent is uitkoms gou nodig.
Ons móét menselewens beskerm en die verspreiding van die virus voorkom, maar nie volgens die koekiedrukker-beginsel ander slaafs nadoen nie. Of hardnekkig aan besluite klou terwyl daar beter planne is nie.
Selfisolering en selfkwarantyn, waar dit moontlik is, kan die staat miljoene spaar; geld wat ingespan kan word waar dit nodiger is.
Dit is byna Augustus en meer as 800 besighede se aansoeke vir loon- en salarissubsidies word steeds beoordeel. Vir hoeveel gaan die hulp eenvoudig te laat wees?
Sake loop beslis nie so vlot soos dit moet nie.
So sê ander
22 Julie 2020
Thanks for the mask, President Trump, but there is more
When state and national leaders could have made it mandatory long before Covid-19 raced like a wildfire across our country, seems the idea of wearing a mask to protect others as well as oneself is finally catching on – 140,000 deaths and nearly four million infections later.
On Tuesday, the biggest influencer of them all, President Trump, jumped on the bandwagon.
We are not sure whether it was his dismal polling numbers, the science, his medical advisers or a combination of all three, but welcome to the party, Mr. President.
Trump’s attempt, once again, to confront the crisis marked a remarkable reversal from his approach to the pandemic.
Not sure how this about face will play with his base which has been following and mimicking its hero’s behavior all along. But for the good of the country and public health, the president – finally – did the right thing.
Now, if he could just help us get our schools open – safely – without threatening to withhold federal funds, if he could demand legislation so that more than 20 million Americans would not lose emergency unemployment benefits when they expire at the end of July, and if he could find a way to pivot on his resistance to funding more testing and contract tracing, well, then we would be duly impressed.
But behind our mask, we are not holding our breath.
• THE REGISTER-HERALD
Die gevolg is terugkrabbeling op besluite. Of duur hofsake waarvoor die belastingbetaler opdok.
Die afgelope week was daar weer twee voorbeelde hiervan.
Vrydagaand kondig die ministerie van onderwys, kuns en kultuur aan graad 11- en 12-leerlinge in Erongo se ingeperkte dorpe moet Maandag terugkeer. Sondagnamiddag laat verander die datum na Woensdag.
Die skouspelagtige ramp rondom ‘n “Covid-19-begraafplaas” in die woestyn naby Narraville vertoon al die klassieke simptome van die probleem. Ook moet gesondheidsowerhede verduidelik waarom die hergradering van risiko’s by begrafnisse en meer menslike prosedures hiervoor blykbaar nog nie in ons land geld nie.
As inspraak gebeur, vat ons dikwels te lank om besluite te neem en dit deur te voer.
Hiervan is voortgesette onsekerheid – en die vooruitsig van self erger ekonomiese skade – in toerisme ‘n getuie. Met bedbesettings benede vyf persent is uitkoms gou nodig.
Ons móét menselewens beskerm en die verspreiding van die virus voorkom, maar nie volgens die koekiedrukker-beginsel ander slaafs nadoen nie. Of hardnekkig aan besluite klou terwyl daar beter planne is nie.
Selfisolering en selfkwarantyn, waar dit moontlik is, kan die staat miljoene spaar; geld wat ingespan kan word waar dit nodiger is.
Dit is byna Augustus en meer as 800 besighede se aansoeke vir loon- en salarissubsidies word steeds beoordeel. Vir hoeveel gaan die hulp eenvoudig te laat wees?
Sake loop beslis nie so vlot soos dit moet nie.
So sê ander
22 Julie 2020
Thanks for the mask, President Trump, but there is more
When state and national leaders could have made it mandatory long before Covid-19 raced like a wildfire across our country, seems the idea of wearing a mask to protect others as well as oneself is finally catching on – 140,000 deaths and nearly four million infections later.
On Tuesday, the biggest influencer of them all, President Trump, jumped on the bandwagon.
We are not sure whether it was his dismal polling numbers, the science, his medical advisers or a combination of all three, but welcome to the party, Mr. President.
Trump’s attempt, once again, to confront the crisis marked a remarkable reversal from his approach to the pandemic.
Not sure how this about face will play with his base which has been following and mimicking its hero’s behavior all along. But for the good of the country and public health, the president – finally – did the right thing.
Now, if he could just help us get our schools open – safely – without threatening to withhold federal funds, if he could demand legislation so that more than 20 million Americans would not lose emergency unemployment benefits when they expire at the end of July, and if he could find a way to pivot on his resistance to funding more testing and contract tracing, well, then we would be duly impressed.
But behind our mask, we are not holding our breath.
• THE REGISTER-HERALD
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