A Fun Filled BTU Cultural Night
Tumelo Mouwane | Monday December 7, 2015 18:00
The dinner, which was held under the theme, “Membership cultural diversity, a driving force behind unity and achievement” brought together teachers from across the country to celebrate the culture day.
The teachers and a few local acts decorated the occasion with a number of overwhelming performances.
Botswana’s first female comedian, Rekunde, did not disappoint the hundreds attending the event. Rekunde cracked jokes and told hilarious stories at every chance she got; leaving the attendees blown off in laughter.
The Maun-born comedian displayed superior sense of humour throughout the show. Her rib-cracking stories became partially explicit towards the end of the event.
The teacher’s choir, BTU Choristers showered the audience with soothing choral music. The content of their artistic melodies reflected and complemented BTU’s efforts of advocating teachers rights. It was palpable that the Botswana Choral Music Association (BOCMA) choral competitions champions were not given sufficient time on the arena as they sang only one song leaving the audience requesting another choral shower.
The BTU traditional group did not want to be left behind as they fully utilised their time on stage. Performing only two songs, the teachers put the spectators on the edges of their seats.
Their performance left the audience spellbound as they concentrated on the crunchy traditional performance.
It was reflected that BTU have a strong faction of amusement at Saturday’s gathering as most of the performances were by their own acts. The nine-man BTU band also displayed an incontestable international standard performance. The stage lighting went well with their orange T-shirts, an impression which added meaningfully to the stage colours.
BTU Choristers then joined the band on the stage. The duo then performed a dance bounding song Mmagwane o na le ditshwene which moved the crowd to the dance floor. The few attendee’s jumped onto stage in excitement.
Next on stage was Maghebula who splattered the audience with his well-loved track, Manyoloi. Maghebula, of Ke thala dinte fame, continued to perform his rich context tracks sending the fans wild.
Maghebula made a way for local Jazz veteran, Ndingo Johwa after performing three songs.
Johwa performed several tracks and modified the event into a jazz occasion for a while. His songs, mostly in Kalanga reflected the core theme of the occasion as he performed songs, which mirrored the Kalanga culture of dihosana dance.