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Thulaganyo Jankey
  • Mantshwabisi: The return to Jwaneng

    I am thinking here of jingles like ‘After doing the nice and nasty at the Desert Race do not forget the constitutional visit to our pharmacies dotted around our villages and towns’. But I must ease up on talking about these peripheral issues of...

  • Father’s Day: A Time To Throw Shade!

    We just wanna talk so there’s no need to panic. We just wanna find out why they decided it should be during the coldest time of the year. As I write, there’s a menacing cold front creeping in to scupper those Father’s Day plans and put paid to...

  • A bus ride to Francistown with Rastaman

    There’s a firm belief that the commuter has now suddenly lost his reading skills as the waiting bays and buses are clearly marked with the various towns and villages.As someone once said, “I often think this planet is used by other planets as a...

  • Welcome the Texas crew

    There was a sense of menace in their criticism, like the purr of a lion feasting on an impala. The cynics smelt political gimmickry.The cynics smelt corruption. The cynics smelt bull dust if you would excuse the pun. The arrival of the bulls and...

  • De-cluttering My House and Life

    Otherwise there’s a real possibility of folks wondering whether you don’t have the fare to get back or you are some kind of fugitive running away from the serious city law.City law is supposed to be more stringent and tougher than village law. So...

  • Ascension Day

    But the significance of this day seems to be lost to most as a good part of the population seems intent on sinning as much as possible away from heaven.And on this day, this very significant day in the Bible, most of us will patronise sin spots like...

  • Mr Ponzi Scheme Leaves Town

    Half the population will follow him blindly until they fall into an abyss. When Mr Ponzi Scheme is in town, many folks lose their minds. It is like when the ice cream van hits your street and parents lose control of their kids.Consumer Watchdog...

  • Writer’s block and average looks

    Writer’s block is a more technical term to describe a writer’s inability to come up with something interesting to write. But what is the writer’s block? Now for most of us this means when we get to this point our jobs might be in more jeopardy...

  • Forbes: The Entrepreneurial and Dancing Spirit

    Almost all the stalls had given a day off to their workers and those who went to the mall to get their coffee fix at the Diamond Square were left both disappointed and amazed. Obviously such huge events must have a fair dose of controversy for them...

  • Not Just Bog Roll

    Government doesn't think so either. Toilet paper is gold and is something to be treasured, nurtured and kept safe from those who invade the council in search of toilets.Go into any council toilets and you will not find toilet paper. Every single...

  • Rusty Dusty Laptops from Across the Border

    I have been here on business for the past two days. I know many don't believe columnists are capable of doing business of any sort. Apparently all we do is write columns and cannot run a business to save our lives.I must admit, however, that...

  • Customer Feedback: Style That Beard

    Yet we annotate our columns with notes like ‘For feedback, comments and insults email [email protected]’. This should lead any sane, analytical person to the conclusion that not many columnists are smart.In fact, I too think many...

  • The Age of ‘Miracles’ and Prophets and Loss

    Everyone took a swig at the bottle and was sufficiently inebriated after that little indulgence. This was an age of miracles when people had powers to part seas and walk through them.Nowadays people believe the miracle boat has sailed, that nobody is...

  • The Real Reason Why Our Stadia Failed CAF Inspection

    Forget that our ‘A basimane Ba Kgwathe’ cohort in 1997 seemed to view the white and black spherical thing as incidental and continued to embarrass the locals by losing all 3 of their games, conceding 10 goals in the process and scoring only 1, in...

  • What are women interested in really?

    Some of you had been touted as the next big thing on the modelling ramp when in actual fact you cannot even make the pages of an edition of The Weird and Wacky Creatures.My mum one day inexplicably called me a prince. I am not exactly sure what I had...

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