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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...
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…...
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...
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...
TO GIVE is not a crime
Jul. 5 | Beata and some of the grateful elderly But it’s a crime to ignore poverty. Adopt an elder and give them love MY BLOOD ran cold when I saw children fight over an empty serving bowl when the food we had prepared was not enough to feed over 600 children. ...
Dirty Sick Men
Jun. 24 | And they point a finger at others HOW DISGUSTED I was when I heard snide comments regarding the maintenance story, The Voice carried about renowned Human rights Lawyer, Duma Boko. I dare most of the top leaders of this country to come out and state...
Giving back to the community
Jun. 17 | Beata with one of the villagers Rasesa gets warm this chilly winter Over the years we have seen companies reach out to the communities, build houses, provide food baskets and generally make a difference in their lives. Since it’s inception, The...
Half of a Century
Jun. 11 | Makgadikgadi - Birth of a princess: This piece of art by Dan Slabbert was drawn for me when I turned 25, in Orapa, 1986. Over 300 elders and children will receive warm clothes, blankets, food and treats on Saturday donated by caring and loving businesses,...
War IS No Joke
Jun. 3 | IS THIS WHAT WE WANT FOR BOTSWANA Be careful of what you ask for As our country goes up in smoke, and songs of a revolution fill the air, we ask one question, is Botswana ready for a war? There are calls for regime change and as much as songs...
Show us the money
May. 27 | GIVE THE WORKERS AN EAR: President Khama We dont want empty promises It is a pity that the Unions and the government have failed to resolve the strike amicably. During my days at Orapa mine, in the early 80’s working for De Beers Botswana, the Botswana...
Game over
Apr. 22 | THE STRIKE, A REA;ITY: Public servants sick and tired of being sick and tired have put their tools down “A hungry man is an angry man” THOSE OF us who doubted that the strike will happen are eating humble pie. Batswana are sick and tired of brandishing...
Where are the women?
Apr. 15 | Dorcas Makgato-Malesu Why is women representation in our parliament so appalling? How in God’s name is it possible for a country with an estimated population of 1 849 681 million to have only four women out of 63 members of Parliament. A total...
