We have to heed our expensive lesson in flawed deputies 14 February 2021 - 00:00 By Makhudu Sefara
Nothing scars a nation more than a great leader who gives his people hope, only to be succeeded by a deeply flawed character who not only decimates the hope but whose relationship with truth is irredeemably pathological.
A veneer of progress is created, only to be smashed.
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Rao had contracted SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, during his vacation to India last year.
Soon, he developed severe thrombosis blood clot in both his legs and underwent an unsuccessful surgery in Chennai.
Fortunately, he was saved from the amputation of his lower limbs at a hospital in Abu Dhabi.
His ordeal had started on October 30, when he tested Covid-19 positive in Chennai.
He was put on oxygen support for a week. However, he developed a niggling pain in both his legs while recovering from the viral infection at home. His health condition aggravated by the day.
On November 23, he collapsed at home and was rushed to hospital and later moved to a specialty healthcare facility.
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A Dane County school district claimed Monday night that it was working with local nonprofit YWCA Madison on community healing after three middle school teachers gave sixth-graders an assignment on the first day of Black History Month that asked them how they would punish a slave â but the YWCA s CEO says no such partnership exists. That is not true, YWCA CEOÂ Vanessa McDowell said Monday night of the district s claim. We have not even had a conversation about a partnership. Â
In a statement later Monday night, the  Sun Prairie School District clarified that it does not have a formalized partnership as defined by a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) or Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the YWCA at this time.