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The year is drawing to a close and it is that time when people look back and reflect on the year as it recedes into their past while brooding on the one that beckons.
The year had its moments for different people and it shall be remembered differently as well but our plea is on how we shut down the year and welcome a new one.
While many people will attend church meetings to thank God for ushering them into a New Year, there are those that prefer to drink themselves into the New Year. We would like to urge for restraint and a sense of responsibility in our homes, bars, roads and all other places of entertainment because it is during this time when people choose to show their happiness that we lose lives unnecessarily.
There is a new phenomenon that is slowly creeping into our society whereby young people waste away due to alcohol consumption during the festive season.
They need to be disabused of this belief that one can never enjoy themselves unless they drink, and not only drink but all sorts of drinks in a single day. The young bodies can only take so much and we do not want to witness deaths due to over drinking.
It is not only the young that sometimes fail to handle themselves properly during the festive season as some adults also tend to lose their minds at this time and some have already spent children’s school fees on beer and all other things and will be quarrelling with their spouses when schools open in a week’s time. Times are hard and prices have sky-rocketed denying many the Christmas cheer but we should always endeavour to live within our means to avoid unnecessary stress next month.
We all yearn for a better Zimbabwe where we get everything that we need when we need it and we do not have to queue for anything. In the meantime as we await that day let us keep the peace in fuel queues, beer queues and entertainment venues queues. We detest violence as a people and we believe there is no need for such in a civilised society like ours.
Finally, beer and driving do not go well together. Let us lessen our regrets as we go into 2019. Let us co-operate fully with law enforcement agents as we celebrate the New Year as they are likely to be deployed in the towns and all other busy areas to maintain law and order.
From past experience, police are aware of flash points where violence sometimes breaks out and it is in such areas that we need to co-operate with the police to rid the places of that tag of violence. Let us enjoy what is left of 2018 and optimistically, and safely, tread into 2019.
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