Issues In Education
Expanding Higher Education: The Challenges Botswana is moving to create more educational opportunities, with "Basic Education" shifting from 10 to 12 years, and access to tertiary education to expand from six percent of the age group to 15 percent in the near future. The expansion of double-shift schooling in senior secondary schools, opening of new schools, and the planned second university are all part of this strategy. What will increased numbers of graduates of these programmes do? The present lack of absorptive capacity of the economy for trained human resources needs to be critically debated. Are expanded opportunities for higher education the answer? If not, what else should Botswana be doing?

Short Term Solutions, Long Term Thinking
Unfortunately it is only rarely that comment on a given topic is answered by a subsequent news report but this has now happened in respect of tourism and crime about which I expressed concern fairly recently.

Enter Morgan Tsvangirai
"To attempt to grasp the Zimbabwe predicament without falling for, or being naively suckered by, the well orchestrated and demonizing propaganda of the rapacious western interests - those predators who roam the globe to enrich themselves and their cronies and supply our guzzling economies with goodies that fatten us and end up wasted in overflowing landfills - one must not ignore history, particularly that of colonialism and the subsequent but rarely fully implemented decolonisation; the savagery of the former and the messy and painful process of the latter" - Gilles d' Aymery (2002). Gilles is a member of the white race who resides in a Western country and sympathises with the Afrikan Cause. She is also the publisher and co-editor of Swans', an online magazine.