The last mockery of women empowerment
Before and after our first independence in 1966, most Batswana women were not encouraged to go to school, as they were always perceived to have God - given inheritance as the ultimate reward in the form of marriage.

UB governance must be sensitive to the public interest
The University of Botswana might never become "a leading academic centre of excellence in Africa and the world" as expressed in its official vision. This will not be because the institution does not have the potential to attain that lofty, desirable and respectable position. The university may fail because of the way the institution has been governed in the last few years - in arrogant and aloof governance style.

TALKING POINT
Thanks to the labour movement I seek editorial space to comment on the Ministry of Education and Radibe saga that has dominated newspaper headlines in recent weeks. The dismissal of Radibe and the turn of events leading to his reinstatement has all the characteristics of a "comedy of errors" that have come to define official business in the Ministry of Education.

BEAC and MOE should step up
The residential property market can be another vehicle the government can use to diversify the economy and empower Batswana. Institutions of higher learning operate residential properties which apparently they can afford to maintain on an 8-month/9-month (academic year) rental schedule. Perhaps, one can conclude that they are able to do so because tuition fees are enough to support such an undertaking.

NITTY GRITTY
Mr Kool is listening We zoom slowly on to the whitish medium cost house, along a dusty street that would otherwise be dirty if it wasn't for the effort of one Maggie, chief executive hostess of the Nitty Gritty. She will not tolerate any form of rubbish - whether it is garbage in the streets or garbage that spews forth from the mouths of guests and patrons at the Shebeen Nitty Gritty in the guise of intellectual discussions.