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LET THEM TALK
Nov. 2 | Ruffling feathers is good for democracy EXPOSE: The litigator is vocal about releasing the results of an investigation on corrupt practices in high places For a very long time Batswana mastered the art to suffer in silence. For ages they adopted...
NOT AMUSED
Oct. 15 | PRESIDENTIAL AWARD: I used this opportunity for a comment for a story. I travelled to Japan to beg for the candid 2010 interview with you. You didn’t even know that I had requested for that interview for over a year! I am not amused by the...
CRYING SHAME
Sep. 2 | TOGETHER AT THE TOP: President Mugabe in a comfort zone I had the most traumatic trip to Zimbabwe recently, where the high level of corruption in that country shocked me. It is pathetic. I hate to talk about other countries as we have our own...
OUR TAX
Jul. 6 | How supriced I was to see a five star place when I was looking for a typical Botswana hospital. The friendly nurses, signs of where srvices were evenan outdoor resting and eating place left me in shock. TAX WELL SPENT: Scottish Livingstone Hospital...
VERY UPSET
Apr. 30 | Alternative governance a dream How can ‘opposition’ hang their linen in public BDP laughing all the way to an election Victory My hopes for an alternative government are dashed. We thought in our lifetime we would see an alternative government....
NO MONEY, NO HOPE
Apr. 10 | What a life! I have resorted to walk with my eyes down if I happen to visit a mall. I don’t want to see the desolation that is prevalent in peoples faces. The sombre and sad expressions leave my blood cold.What is it that has befallen a once...
WE LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES
Mar. 30 | It is so surreal. Unity Dow Everything is happening so fast. We embrace the gift of life but most of all to be part of these interesting times. To say that the news that Unity Dow has joined the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) came as a shock...
AT THE DEEP END
Mar. 2 | How easy it is to analyse the general political climate in Africa. Our African politics are a case of a one shoe size fits all. The mudslinging, promises which are never fulfilled, and general lying to the electorate seems to be the norm in African politics....
LIFE BEGINS AT 50
Dec. 23 | Children are our future Ten years ago when I filled my tub with foamy water, I absolutely had no regard to water wastage. Let alone the thought that someone, somewhere, didn’t have water to drink. When at around 05h00, I was weary after working at...
WHO BUILT THIS?
Dec. 16 | President Khama with students in Japan Who else? The Chinese. ON WEDNESDAY, we went to Electrical Distribution, who have opened an exclusive lights shop in Broadhurst Industrial. While in the shop, we were cautioned, “Be careful, you will slip… It...
WHO’S FOOLING WHO?
Dec. 9 | Matome and Nchindo in court Matome is just a scapegoat WE HAVE written this before and we repeat it again — for as long as Botswana continues to catch Big Fish, let them go and appease herself with sardines, we are well on an advanced journey to hell. Poor...
NO TO SHEBEENS
Nov. 25 | ON TRACK: Minister Makgathu-Malesu I GIVE MINISTER of Trade, Dorcas Makgato-Malesu, a big thumbs up for endorsing the ban on home based shebeens. Kgosikgolo Kgafela Kgafela took a radical step when he banned home brewed concoctions to be sold in Kgatleng...
OUR POLITICS, A JOKE
Nov. 18 | Ntuane's supporters How can someone not be opposition enough? Batswana need leaders not dummies! Even before the dust has settled, the newly formed Umbrella is causing more controversy than South Africa’s motor mouth, Julius Malema. The recent...
YOU ARE FIRED
Nov. 4 | Kgosi Kgafela I thought a chief was born… not elected, but I was wrong! I am taken aback by the recent “de-recognition” of Kgosi-Kgolo Kgafela II of Bakgatla-ba-ga-Kgafela. After a glance at the Chieftainship Act, I was appalled that our Chiefs...
It’s time for a real change…
Aug. 26 | Choose your President These four women have one thing in common. They share one attribute… They are powerful leaders. Now that the opposition is just a few steps for what we have always advocated for, a unity, we once again put forward top leaders...
Africa loves conflict …
Aug. 15 | KHAMA: The man we are asked to hate, why ? Botswana, new kid on the block I NEVER thought Botswana would join the African love-for-conflict saga in my lifetime. Our country is joining the rest of Africa in resorting to conflict as an alternative, even...
Give us Khan not Malema
Aug. 5 | CONTROVERSIAL: Malema These days Botswana is a skipping rope. Even Julius Malema has grabbed his piece of the rope and is smiling all the way into local newspapers including the ghetto as a strategy to enhance his ever growing controversial share of the...
Hospitals are NOW MORGUES
Jul. 22 | Malome Melato Two Sundays ago our uncle fell sick. At 70 he had the energy 30-year-olds of today can only dream of. Staying alone at the foot of a hill as cold as a fridge in a winter like we had this year is devastating. We took him home, fed him warm...
DIRTY SICK MEN DEFENDED
Jul. 15 | FLASHBACK: The Ghetto of July 15 Young girls definitely not innocent This is a big problem, involving two indi- viduals. Young girls who bed older men are not innocent. Not by a long shot. They are just as guilty and responsible for their plight and...
