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Transport veteran calls for integrated railways
"If the government does not act fast to put an integrated transport policy in place, then we can safely conclude that Botswana Railways' (BR) future is bleak," declares Tswapong South MP, Oreeditse Molebatsi. He says the words matter-of-factly."I might as well say it's doomed," he emphasises, and repeats the statement a few times. "And this is not politics. Go ka tweng: How to rob a legend
Rre Madimabe ke tshwere bothata, Rre Madimabe ke tshwere bothata, (I, Madimabe, am beset by challenges) so laments legendary folk musician the late Speech Madimabe in his song Nnenekwane. Madimabe's lyrics are steeped in protest, which leads to cultural activist/writer Modirwa Kekwaletswe rightly calling him a "protest artist". Madimabe protests against all sorts of ills - from the assassins who wrestled his father to death, to the uncles who deny him his father's inheritance, and everything else in between onto which he wanted to unleash his unhappiness.
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