Namibia: Public Relations Gone Too Far

28 October 2011
opinion

As a scribe I loath an invitation that tells me that I should haul my body to an assignment just because there will be snacks available no matter how minor the event is or boring, in some cases or oddly enough, sometimes just plain not newsworthy.

As a fresh-faced acne and pimple-invaded undergraduate I could not wait to finish school and start practising the skill as Professor Mchombu used to call what we were about to enter - the profession of scribes, notebooks, pens and a lot of booze.

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