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THE JOZI EXPERIENCE
Sep. 3 | ICON: Dipholo posing with Mandela statue at Gauteng Tourism offi ces And the day I was saved by a hair dryer Being the one who loves travelling, I had prepared myself well for the five day trip for the Joy of Jazz festival in Johannesburg. An all expenses...
THE SINGING FINGERS
Aug. 27 | MUSIC SENSATION: Pillai playing her favourite instrument Elderly Sri Lankan pianist shares her love for music and food While her peers were playing with dolls and still trying to write their names correctly Assunta Isabelle Pillai was already perfecting...
HOPELESSLY HOPING
Aug. 27 | The Search Team Searching in the dreaded waters for a drowned man Boarding the Botswana Defence Force boat and joining the soldiers and the police into the Boteti River was no blissful experience. An inborn nature lover that I am, a pang of sympathy...
UP AND UP SHE GOES
Aug. 20 | WIFE AND MOTHER: Tumi Ramsden Being singled out and quoted by president Obama charges Tumie to take on the world Just when we thought we had written all there is to write about her, Yarona FM’s Tumie Ramsden scored another ‘success’ which made...
A PLEDGE TO NURSE TO LIFE
Aug. 6 | DEVOTED CARE GIVER: Mma Mokgele When 79 -year- old Jacobine Mokgele made the Florence Nightingale pledge during her graduation as a nurse in 1964 she was not only doing it as a normal routine but as a real lifetime commitment to care for the sick. And...
Turned over a new leaf – At home with Luzboy
Jul. 30 | By Voice Reporter FATHER & SON: Luzboy with Reejay It’s a Sunday afternoon and we are parked next to the News Café at the Village waiting for Losika ‘Luzboy’ Seboni so we can go and have a chat at his home. Unlike before where you would expect...
HOPING AGAINST HOPE
Jul. 30 | DISAPPOINTED: Therelelo Pitso Pain, heartache and waiting in vain By FRANCINAH BAAITSE Almost a year since the discovery of Ogorogile Bonane’s half body corpse, Kokong villagers in Ngwaketse West are not convinced that he is indeed dead. Traditional...
WITH HIS PEN!
Jul. 23 | THIS IS HOW WE DID IT: Van Rensburg showing off his typesetter which has been overtaken by computers The man who built living memories Age is catching up with him and he can hardly remember most dates of events that happened in his life. But while his...
THE PILLAR OF THE MOLOKOMME POWERHOUSE
Jul. 16 | STILL GOING STRONG: Mma Molokomme At the age of four Imelda Molokomme migrated to Cape Town, South Africa with her father. Since it was just the two of them it meant that she had no choice but grow up fast and by the time she was eight she was able...
FAIR PLAY!
Jul. 16 | MAN OF THE PEOPLE: Khama tours the stalls Up there with Khama in the land of Mosi beer In Ndola, Zambia A late-notice invitation by the Office of the President to cover the official opening of the 46th Zambia International Trade Fair comes as something...
HER FEET, THEIR CHANCE IN LIFE
Jul. 9 | WALKING FOR A WORTHY CAUSE: Lanyani Makwinja 21 year-old in a 437 kilometres fundraising walk for ChildlineTouched by the plight of children at the Childline centre in Gaborone, which is home to about 21 children aged between four months and five...
AYOBA MZANSI!
Jul. 9 | Vuvuzela fever: Francinah in Soweto Journalists get a chance to feel it “Ayoba” is the African slang to get you feeling good when you are in South Africa these days. Ayobaness is how I felt when South African Tourism (SAT) hosted me together with...
IT PAYS TO PERSEVERE
Jul. 9 | THE BRAINS BEHIND PHAKALANE: David Magang Living the Phakalane dream Some years back his life was punctuated by adversity, ridicule, resistance, doors being shut on his face, perceived a day dreamer and even escaped death through the eye of a needle,...
KNOCKED HELPLESS
Jul. 2 | BREADWINNER: Ramontshonyana Mathawe Disease and poverty Unknown disease leaves once healthy and active man paralysed and dependent There is no doubt that being unable to do what one used to do is very frustrating. It becomes even worse when one has...
THE DAY THE BOERS CAME
Jun. 25 | FEARFUL: Alexander Koka A victim of the 1985 Mogoditshane raid haunted by his near-death experience By Phillimon Mmeso The saying that time heals is just a joke of the century to Alexander Koka who still bore both emotional and physical scars of the...
CALLED TO SERVE
Jun. 18 | GOOD OLD DAYS: Mma Anderson at 16 The true pioneer in the fight for gender equality When growing up Joyce Gainewe Anderson was socialized and taught that girls and boys are at par with each and other and deserve equal opportunities. It is this principle...
KING OF THE AIRWAVES
Jun. 11 | VETERAN MEDIAMAN: Bishy Mmusi Bishy Mmusi reminisces of yesteryears of Radio Tucked away in the woods about 10 kilometres from the Game City mall in Gaborone along Lobatse Road is a place called Crocodile Pools. In this place there is modest...
DEAF OVER DEATH
Jun. 11 | IN DENIAL: Joel But patient plans suing doctors who saved his life with medication that disabled him Up until he was given what he perceives to be wrong medication, Joel* had a perfect hearing. He was only 38 year of age when he entered Princess Marina...
CAUGHT IN THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
Jun. 4 | BREADWINNER: Ramontshonyana Mathawe Out of one falling hut 15 emerge to one cup of watery tea each and despair all day Long before sunrise all 15 grandchildren crawl out of the falling hut to warm up in the fire after a long chilly night. With just...
