Shashe

 The Daily News of 14 August carries a report titled "Facilitators appreciate significance of teaching Setswana". Mention is made of "...a Setswana culture, which [is] by design, descriptive [rather] than prescriptive". My aversion to what is referred to as "Setswana culture" stems from the fact that the Setswana language is a relatively new language on Earth, compared to Kalanga, for example. The Setswana language speakers would have us believe that Setswana language is, at the very least, as ancient as Kalanga. But they never explain to us why the workgroups (read tribes) to which they belong have Kalanga names, corrupted to sound like Setswana, but meaningless in Setswana language: Ba-ku-lutshi, Batugwa, Balindi, Bangwa-Ato, Bangwa-khwizi, BeHakata, Ba-ta-Wana, Balilima (Barolong); Ba-ku-ina (Bakwena). Despite the corruptive encroachment of the "Setswana" language into such names, the speakers of the Setswana language and its derivatives, su...

Our Police are running helter skelter escorting transit truckers throughout the breadth and length of this republic. Therefore they are thin on the ground inside the country. As a result irresponsible people who flatly refuse to wear PROPER masks PROPERLY are taking advantage of this and flouting Covid-19 rules. Our Parliament needs to take these criminals head on. Government should recruit volunteers (yes, unpaid volunteers) among the general public to police the wearing of masks in Public places. In addition to that every health worker should be empowered to enforce the wearing of face masks in all Public places. The enforcement should be such that anybody who is noticed and cautioned for not wearing a face mask should have his/her name published in the "Daily News", and such person should be denied medical treatment at Government expense for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic, regardless of the type of ailment he/she suffers from. Our people need to understand that ...