Sparkling with cultural legacy
Friday, January 30, 2009
A local community junior secondary school, en route to the famous Pharing gorge, has yielded the famous "lenao la ga matsieng'-a rare stone engraving of a man's foot on a hill.
The footprint at Mathiba CJSS was discovered by a school teacher only in 2007 and there is still little publicity about the discovery.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...