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• There is no need to panic.• We could all be killed. It is vitally important that one keeps abreast of the situation by turning on their television and watching TV reporters in rain slickers stand right next to a flood plain and telling...

When you start seeing memos heavily-laced with words like ‘load management’, just know that we are treading into that treacherous path of load shedding. Semantics and such smart, almost-deceptive words are usually used by cunning PR teams to...

I too bandwagoned and decided on selling pies to the hungry masses. I was also emboldened when the VP started talking about how SMMEs are important to the economy.When eminent people like the VP start talking like that, you have to adjust your...

The two then decided to use guns to come to an agreement. The one whose guns have the heaviest thump will essentially be the one whose thoughts, reasons and ideas will carry the day.This is what happens during a war. If your country loses the war...

This is to say when it comes to democracy no country is better.Phrases like ‘beacon of democracy’ are usually reserved for countries in Africa because people from Identifying Beacons of Democracy School believe democracy in Africa is as scarce as...

This was punted more times than I care to remember at the series of activations.By storm?! While this remains a moot point for the time being, what followed immediately was three days of intense water-tank-melting heat, at least in the city. There...

How apt and downright brash and trashy! Independence day signifies the day when we shed the yoke of imperialism.It is a great deal in Africa.That is why even though this happened in 1966, every year on September 30 we don’t go to work and cook meat...

The reason for this – the official reason – was that Internet is generally slow in their countries. So instead of improving Internet speed in their countries, their very smart solution was to travel to a country with faster Internet speed.The...

This is before the powers that be figured out that an airport that close to the hustle and bustle of the city could result in aeroplanes crashing on top of people’s heads (and ruining their expensive hairstyles) or inside the stadium when a match...

Before long some seemingly simple event that you thought you had understood completely has evolved into something completely different and usually far more bizarre.A local team called Gaborone United (GU) is supposed to host a team from DRC. Nothing...

Like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those safety goggles and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those safety goggles.But please...

The script is usually predictable. First there’s an argument about who is wrong. After a few verbal exchanges the less vocal one somewhat concedes with a ‘let’s call the police’ refrain. And then the script veered off course with one motorist...

Sometimes I feel the city needs excitement. Verging on weird even.Ok I agree half the city is conservative especially the inner city retired folk whose main vocation is buying a newspaper and arguing about the contents and trying to juxtapose with...

To perhaps increase their chances at winning medals, the whole United Kingdom fragments into England, Scotland, Nothern Ireland and Wales. This is very clever. Fairness does seem an intrusion here. Their opponents don’t seem to have realised this....

The mask has a bit of tainted history because it was used by robbers to redistribute property and money, but this was somewhat sterilised by the onset of COVID-19.It morphed from being an outlaws’ tool of trade to being a powerful weapon to thwart...