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Khama is grist for the mill

The gloves are finally off! We’ve all been craving this open challenge between former president Ian Khama and his protégé-turned foe – President Mokgweetsi Masisi. Thanks God Khama has grown tired of the procrastination – the greatest...

Where there is no sex satisfaction, there are quarrels, stress, conflicts and diseases

Recently I suffered accusations of bringing our nation into disrepute when I stated that “Batswana are bad at sex.” My sentiments were shared in The Midweek Sun from an interview they did with me at a writers’ workshop in Kanye. This baptism...

When dealing with Kgosikgolo, tread with care

Dear Comrade Duma Your Comradeship, I write to you with a deep sense of discomfort regarding the latest tidings emerging from the Gammangwato capital – more specifically that circus event aptly staged at the Showgrounds of Goo Konyana ward in...

On the importance of wills, marriages of convenience and the boggling entitlement culture

I recently read some magazine article to the effect that late jazz icon Oliver Mtukudzi’s will states that he left everything to his wife and nothing for his children. I would later come across a social media post where a few people discussed...

Khama must form his own Party

There is an enduring wisdom in the decision of the founding president Sir Seretse Khama to separate royalty from politics. Politics by its nature is a game of contestation open to all and sundry but royalty is a platform of exclusive privilege...

All Hail Kgama, Hail To Thee Kgosikgolo Ya Bangwato

Dear Kgosi Kgama Dumela Kgosikgolo! The message of your weekend meeting at the Serowe Show Grounds only reached me today and I am sorry to say I will not be able to make it. But I am happy to note that you are now making considerable steps towards...

Of Kings and Pawns: Tlogela malele ao Mma-V

Dear MmaV MmaV, akere I warned you about the people whom I said did not really care about you but were using you to push their own agendas? Where were they when you needed them the most last Thursday and Friday at the High Court and in Kang...

Enlightening lessons from losing a loved one

Last week (April 7) marked three months since my brother Moagi Ditlhase passed.I keep writing about my personal journey with loss in my diary and share it with my social media friends #DiaryOfAGrievingSister. I agree we handle grief different, and...

We have become disrespectful to our leaders

Have we become so angry as a society that we no longer care about what we say about and to each other?  Isn’t there a way we could address this nasty and equally demeaning disease?  Could our traditional mephato system of yesteryears that...

On bad jokes, taunts and not sweating the small stuff

Amidst the recent brouhaha of the ruling party presidential race, I came across a jibe at Mma V online that read, “A re go rileng yo pelekaneng matlho yo. She appears to have a form of strabismus called esotropia (‘cross-eyed’). I thought to...

The calm after the storm

As sure as the sun rises, it will set. In the same vein, there is calm after every storm. And this is what the nation expects after the turbulent year of violent bickering within the ruling party. The real work of governance must now begin in...

Times a changeling’

Botswana is gradually reclaiming herself – not necessarily her innocence; we know she has been battered, raped, abused and dumped! Perhaps in her reawakening, she will learn to cherish the hard won values of national cohesion, which for a fleeting...

On public displays of affection and kissing babies

I was listening to Kim’s show on DumaFM a few weeks ago when she was discussing public displays of affection, commonly referred to as PDA. I found her views and those of her guest and listeners quite interesting. It is one of those topics that...

Is it witchcraft or other non-related health conditions

This weekend I went to spend the weekend with my cousins at my maternal ancestral masimo. As we always did we sat over a calabash of traditional brew. In the ensuing discussion we raise the issue of witchcraft and the general belief amongst our...

Reclaiming your sanity

My life is as busy as it gets. Away from my household duties, I also do community work that involves hosting seminars, doing ministry work and being a regular guest at local radio stations. I am passionate about serving. Nevertheless, it comes with...

Masisi must stop giving Kgama too much attention!!

Dear Carter Morupisi I hope all is well with you Carter, and I pray God continues to keep you breathing for longer in the midst of this raging presidential tussle in which you find yourself entangled. I pity you Carter. For here you are, caught...

Beware the haters and schemers Bra Tony!

Dear Masunga My man, kana I never really got to congratulate you on your grand ascendance to the summit of the Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) management structure. I am sorry to have taken this long morena; it was not out of any...

Ladies, go ahead and spoil your kings

FEBRUARY is the month of love and the hopeless romantics must be looking forward to nothing but love, romance and a little chocolate indulgence and all the good things. On Valentine’s Day, observed on February 14 each year, lovers spoil each...

It’s a shame: Death has been commercialised

This past weekend there were five funerals in the village part that I live. Men, women and youth thronged the homesteads and the graveyard where funeral rites were conducted. As I sat amongst men old and young, I could not help but recall the...

When presenting the 2019/20 budget speech, Kenneth Matambo’s starting point was to compare the Botswana of today with the results of colonial rule. I have listened to this analogy for many years by different ministers of finance.  I just wish...