Shashe

I am a dirt poor and semi-knowledgeable man. How I wish I could buy all Zechariah Sitchins books! How I wish I could read at least one of his books! How I wish I could visit Egypt and learn something about the antiquities, and share with you my readers! If  you wish to help me financially, please send one US dollar ($1) or any amount you can afford to: First National Bank of Botswana limited. Account number: 62779987357 Branch Code: 281867 Swift Code:FIRNBWGX I will post here to inform of amount accumulated in the account at this same time every week. Thank You and God bless!

I seldom listen to my country's broadcasting stations, be it over radio or on television. While the country is undoubtedly mine (I would fight to the death to keep it that way) the language on the airwaves is not. Tswana language is as foreign to me as English language. I have, however embraced the English language for two reasons: 1. As the language of my erstwhile colonial masters, English had to be learnt by all my forebears in the last 200 years. 2. The English language is so widely spoken in the world that one is guaranteed to be understood at least by someone in virtually every country in the world. Neither of the above reasons applies to Tswana language. Added on to that disadvantage is the fact that Tswana language speakers have become oppressors of my language, therefore oppressors of me, the speaker of that language. They use my tax to improve their language; they build broadcasting stations which broadcast ONLY in their language. They forced me to learn their languag...

This post is relevant only to citizens of our country. Somewhere in the capital city Gaborone, lies a freshly severed head of a Botswana woman. The grieving relatives buried the headless torso a few weeks ago. According to news reports, the boyfriend has already appeared before a magistrate, charged with her murder. Somewhere in Mathangwane a woman lies critically injured on the head by a love partner. Somewhere ................ It goes on and on, in this month of elimination of gender-based violence against women and the girl child. The first question that comes to mind is: Where are women leaders of this country? Where are women leaders in the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), a party commonly known as Domi? Where is Dorcas Makgatho? What has she, in her official capacity as BDP women's leader, said about these heinous crimes perpetrated against her kind? If she said anything publicly, I must have missed it, and I apologise for calling her out. What I did not miss th...