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Khuphuka Nasingeni
It has been an eventful week indeed.A� Since Sunday we have had breaking news galore, starting with the sporting arena and extending to other areas. A�
Some of us celebrated the Warriors victory for days and we are still in celebratory mood.
There was also the local league campaign that got under way this past weekend and supporters of teams that won must still be in celebratory mood a�� who can begrudge them after a long absence of local league soccer. We have seen an avalanche of jokes based on the first weekenda��s results and predictions of how the season will shape up.
As a footballing nation we call on the football gods to exorcise the ghosts that are seemingly meddling with our springs that have been sustaining our football via Zifa.
Can my friend Carl Joshua organise a roast away from football stadiums to channel certain passions tied to our finances in football away from the game to the comedy scene until all the necessary rituals have been performed.
What I have learnt out of all this is that, unlike some slogans that only last one election campaign, certain sayings are so true they will outlive all of us, just as they have outlived numerous generations before us.
A good example is a�?He who pays the piper calls the tunea�?. So much about football.
I intended to dwell much on the game seeing the season has just started but as I consulted my buddies over my WhatsApp, I kept getting a suspicious message about encryption, a word my English teacher never acquainted me with.
However, according to those that know better, this message is a bearer of good or bad news, depending on where you stand in your social stratum.
There is already a whole lot of naughty stuff that you can do on social media, WhatsApp included.
Even discussions about football and other not so palatable subjects, take place on these networks. UMzo is worried that his message to his girlfriend will be delivered in Chinese, as a form of encryption, hence ruining his romantic chances. Some actually switched off their phones for a while, and this boy by the street corner made quite a killing fixing phones ezabadala that had that curious message that he explained as expiring of old version.
Making money make sense! I felt relieved when someone explained to me that what the message meant was that when you send a message via WhatsApp it mutates into something unreadable but assumes its original form on arrival at the other end, that is, the phone to which it is being sent.
If it were to be intercepted, the message would not make sense.A� I hear the same applies to the WhatsApp calls.
When the topic came up for discussion at my usual spot someone prayed that these companies should invent some system that allows messages to self-destruct should the woman of the house stumble on them on the phone. I wonder how many inventions can be credited to naughtiness!
My drinking mates are hopeful that after this latest innovation, researchers would be tackling that area of interest.
The world has become excitingly dangerous, with its inhabitants so excited about their privacy while exposing themselves to all sorts of security threats.
Anyway, let me steer clear of issues of privacy, those are protected by our constitution. It appears prying into your partnera��s phone is now almost equivalent to marital rape! On the WhatsApp latest privacy guarantee I am sure it will be a matter of weeks and Facebook will soon be eating a humble pie, with WhatsAppa��s secrets having been split open along Lobengula Street by some teenager, I swear by my pregnant goat!A� My friend once shared with me contents of a sermon that cautioned against the abuse of social media, particularly WhatsApp. I hear the preacherman, in an almost prophetic tone, said he was uneasy that the abuse of WhatsApp had spread into the church and reckoned that even during the sermon unholy signals of pictures were flying past his pulpit as he stood before the congregation.
a�?You will be shocked that Christians are busy sending each other pictures of private parts right here as I am preaching . . . if they were visible, I could be dodging them; we must stop that.a�? Now those pictures have been further camouflaged, all in the name of privacy of communication!A� Maybe our wise waters club is a bit archaic, maybe we should meet for drinks via skype and chat as you drink with your mates all over the globe or use some other modern day social medium, definition of face to face is being revisited. At a time when debate over whether to allow children to use cellular phones in schools, went back and forth inconclusively, some schools in the West (where by the way the WhatsApp message also spread this week), have incorporated Twitter into their teaching.
Now they just hashtag their teacher and a�?everyone can be heard without anyone raising their handa�?, as one put it.
Though your pupils are likely to stray, it is a requirement that while logged in they make contributions on the class hashtag, so that there is little room for extra-curricula activities. Very soon some of these gadgets may just replace whole professions at the click of a button. I believe STEM is our attempt to leapfrog in that direction.
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