By Dikembe Disembe Economic sabotage is the highest form of peaceful protest. The more young people boycott safari com which is increasingly becoming a tool for oppression and subversion of people's choices, the better for our country. In a sense, the success of this boycott will also remind politicians both in cord and jubilee that they are entering a new age of citizen politics where organizing for political and economic causes will no longer require a permit and a venue at Uhuru Park. As for Brookside, the boycott should purely be in solidarity with small scale farmers and other players in the milk industry who are increasingly being bought off due to unfair economic policies. In democracies, the consumer is the king. In western democracies which we borrow from, consumption of goods has very close relation to political choices. Even in the US where I am currently, the case of Joseph Sterling, the 'racist' owner of a basketball club has shown that businesses can't just deal with certain issues as if they don't matter. From what I gather, the boycott in Kenya will be sustained in various sectors. I pity Equity Bank. Truth is, the interference, especially, with people's political choices must be rejected. I pity Nation Media Group. I want to feel the pain and suffering of losing election that is fair and credible, not one where safaricom aided one side by systems failure or where a bank allowed the operation of an account where large sums of money changed hands to pay ghosts of elections. The boycott is working. You don't need to convince anyone....just change your number...reduceyour calls...never forget it took Rosa Parks to refuse to give her seat that sparked the bus boycotts and changed the trajectory of civil rights movement. Our body of work is just beginning.
By Strive Masiyiwa A few weeks ago I went to the doctor. I will tell you what he said about my health at the end, but first read this: Twenty years ago, I arranged to meet a well-known British international businessman who invested a lot in Africa at the time. We agreed to meet for dinner at a leading hotel in London. After a good meeting, we started to walk out of the restaurant when he suddenly collapsed in the lobby. There was total pandemonium as they rushed to get medical assistance. Being London, an ambulance arrived in minutes. I jumped in the back with him as paramedics wrestled to keep him alive. He had had a heart attack and had to have triple bypass heart surgery. Sadly he died a few weeks later. He hadn't been sick and his sudden death surprised everyone. And yet as I reflected on it, and later discussed it with a doctor friend who knew him, I realized he was very laid back about his health despite having a hectic business life. Even during our dinner...
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