I fully concur with the sentiments expressed in the opinion piece of 22 July 2021 in The Namibian by Prof. Andre du Pisani, a renowned intellectual giant of our time, not a fake or non-intellectual pseudo political analyst - a person whose name I first heard at a very tender age when he was at the South Africa Institute of Race Relations in the 1970s and then met him personally at our University of Namibia.
The gist of his assertion is that eulogies of 'comrades', 'heroes', 'warriors', 'revolutionaries' and 'strategists' who departed us on the account of Covid-19 and who are paraded through state and heroes' funerals are not highlighting the intellectual content, merit and value of their ideas and the extent to which these resonate with the present and how we can benefit from these ideas in the future.
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