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Thulaganyo Jankey
  • Dump Stars: Not on Valentine’s Day

    Granted, it is an ill-fitting wig and so this advice should be taken with a large dose of PG. For quite a while I didn’t have the testicular fortitude to wade into this territory because my competence on the subject is akin to trying to build a...

  • The Evil Of Corruption

    It is a cancerous evil that threatens to consume and put many an African country asunder. We are no exception and despite the sometimes flattering indices Botswana is right there in the mix. Someone once defined corruption as the art of turning...

  • Let’s Rain Check Those New Year’s Resolutions Once Again

    It’s not our fault, right? Every gathering is an all-you-can-eat buffet, and calories magically become festive cheer! You know the drill: You promise yourself you won’t go overboard, but then Uncle Shakes brings his famous pounded goat meat...

  • INK SPILLS

    The December air just has that thing that gets the rational brain cells going on vacation when they should be putting on a shift bigger than our diamond marketers.December is the most loved month in the calendar. This is mainly because when this...

  • Brand New MPs and Ministers

    Many of us remember our first date with a tinge of embarrassment. For a good number of us we experienced that classic "whoops" moment of accidentally knocking over your drink and drenching your date's new outfit.What are the challenges of...

  • The Morning After Part 1: The Defeated

    . Read that again. Nowhere did I mention any sort of pill so before you start thinking this column is a birth control workshop sorry to disappoint you. This remains a column laced with silliness and a dash of humor. No, there's no way I'm...

  • INK SPILLS

    And let's not forget the landlords, who apparently have turned into neck-breathing dragons when the rent's overdue. And somehow you are the solution of all these morasses. My wallet has become a superhero of sorts to save the day of a...

  • The Internet Doctor And Unsolicited Medical Advice

    It's like a never-ending episode of a cooking show where the secret ingredient is always chaos. One minute you're learning how to budget like a minimalist, and the next, you're deep in the philosophical trenches, pondering how Ratsie...

  • INK SPILLS

    Winter is synonymous with beans, warm clothing, indoors, defaulting on gym subscriptions and fatter people. Let me make a disclaimer here that fatter people refers to men and in the case of women let us just say they get big-boned or fuller-figured....

  • Here’s To The Nurses On Your Day

    On International Nurses Day, we tip our hats to these compassionate warriors who wield thermometers like swords and bandages like shields. They are the vigilant sentinels at the gates of recovery, the ones who listen to our grumbles with saintly...

  • My Athletic Route To World Relays

    Back then they’d measure your height and bunch you together with boys of a similar height. I was actually very short – which means I was vertically challenged in modern politically-correct parlance – and I was usually bunched with boys 3 years...

  • INK SPILLS

    Winter is synonymous with beans, warm clothing, indoors, defaulting on gym subscriptions and fatter people. Let me make a disclaimer here that fatter people refers to men and in the case of women let us just say they get big-boned or fuller-figured....

  • Dogs to pay tax

    This was an answer to the call to local governments to come up with new avenues of revenue collection. So the smart Gaborone City (GC) civic leaders decided that dogs should pay tax.They beat a hasty retreat when GC residents picketed against this....

  • Free Electricity Connection Not For All

    While this would seem a low-level ambition it was a reality which most of us aspired for.I told this to my kids the other day and they tongue-in-cheek told me such ambitions should be buried deep in the archives of regrettable aspirations. But they...

  • Chema Chema – The Mokgokolosa effect

    You can wake up at 3am and get into a queue and get queuing card number 237.This means you have to make a call to your family to bring blankets as you will probably get to see the doctor (if there’s any) after a few days. So this means if you are...

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