Where in Botswana?
Like many citizens of this, our beautiful land, I have a large map of Botswana pinned on my wall. Each time I listen to the radio or watch BTV, I try to find where in the country the reporter is reporting on. I seldom find it. The reporter always announces his/her name, then the name of the village. I rush to the map to find the location of the village, but sadly I seldom find it.
If every reporter displayed a placard behind him or beside him stating the geographical coordinates of the village, be it the Kgotla or the rain gauge in the case of weather reports, we could easily locate the said village on the map. It makes no sense to announce the name of a village, if only the residents of that village end up knowing where the rain has fallen. Please Radithupa, milidzani makumbo Ntombo.
Yesterday I tuned in to the Parliamentary debate on TV. The one thing I remember clearly was a suggestion by one MP (I can't remember his name) that drones can be used to deliver medicines to elderly residents during the Covid19 lockdown; a great suggestion, but given our national aversion to the use of geographical coordinates, how are the drones going to locate their destinations?
I have suggested that tribal territories (TT) be abolished and replaced with provinces whose boundaries will be based on geographical coordinate lines of longitude and latitude. Not a single political party has voiced support for that suggestion. The exception was Tate Batisani Maswibilili who called upon Neva Tshabang and others to go and abolish TTs, at a political rally.
The educated of our land have betrayed the people, by meekly accepting the status quo and being concerned only about securing their economic wellbeing at the expense of national developmental reconstruction.
If every reporter displayed a placard behind him or beside him stating the geographical coordinates of the village, be it the Kgotla or the rain gauge in the case of weather reports, we could easily locate the said village on the map. It makes no sense to announce the name of a village, if only the residents of that village end up knowing where the rain has fallen. Please Radithupa, milidzani makumbo Ntombo.
Yesterday I tuned in to the Parliamentary debate on TV. The one thing I remember clearly was a suggestion by one MP (I can't remember his name) that drones can be used to deliver medicines to elderly residents during the Covid19 lockdown; a great suggestion, but given our national aversion to the use of geographical coordinates, how are the drones going to locate their destinations?
I have suggested that tribal territories (TT) be abolished and replaced with provinces whose boundaries will be based on geographical coordinate lines of longitude and latitude. Not a single political party has voiced support for that suggestion. The exception was Tate Batisani Maswibilili who called upon Neva Tshabang and others to go and abolish TTs, at a political rally.
The educated of our land have betrayed the people, by meekly accepting the status quo and being concerned only about securing their economic wellbeing at the expense of national developmental reconstruction.
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