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The names Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky are especially hard for us to pronounce. Our most enduring contact with Europeans was with the group led by a queen whose language of communication was English.Putin sounds suspiciously English and of...

They would neatly type your details on a slip of paper and your salary details and deductions and put it in an envelope. Since I had just started working, there were not many deductions save for tax unlike my more experienced colleagues whose payment...

Our most alluring image of the efforts of our team is a midfielder who burst a ball by blocking an opponent – hardly the stuff to bump up one’s football pedigree. But some local fans were desperate to rose colour our Afcon effort and exploited...

It was also an attempt to prove that local companies can actually help government’s effort to keep kids off the streets and I was the guinea pig. My dad was pro-establishment and he would have heard and heeded the call more than most citizens. One...

In the history of strike action, no bus and taxi operators have ever had any strike without elements of violence. In fact, they don’t even need strikes to get violent. Their work place is usually an unorthodox blend of madness and strife. Sometimes...

My cooking skills are at best remedial and with my limited toolkit, I was determined to strike a blow for the male section. Up to then, my culinary skills were quite rudimentary and involved boiling an egg, boiling rice and frying eggs. I know this...

Or sometimes you attend an event like the Mascom Derby and everyone is driving a GD6 when you are rolling in a rickety jalopy. You take out the abacus and calculate that if you sell the car you are currently driving then you should be able to pay a...

The Forbes office was met with an apology of sorts that went something like ‘those lofty standards cannot work here. We are pleading with Forbes to lower their threshold otherwise we are likely to get a Forbes 0 under 30 situation’. The somewhat...

This is usually the script: News article 1: Mokolodi residents have spent a quiet Easter weekend with very few motor accidents and vehicle infractions News article 2: Botswana Police Services recorded five incidents of semausu break-ins and three...

I was beyond redemption and once I got into the Liar Lane, the Lie Train just kept chugging faster and faster. Let’s face it. Out of all the programmes you watch on TV, you will not readily admit to watching 60% of them in a survey or research...

Of course you might disagree that he ‘beat the living daylights’ out of Will but these were Oscars and in acting speak that is akin to doing exactly that.Some say comedians are susceptible to those moments of trusting a fart while having an upset...

It always ends with me being wife-marched (which is a female, non-GBV-infused equivalent of frog-marched) to the storeroom to ‘do something about it’. For me ‘doing something about it’ involves picking a few items and throwing them out to...

Like a herd of tortoises waddling through peanut butter. All these are, however, much faster than continental drift. In Botswana there’s something much slower than continental drift.Applying for and getting a piece of land in Botswana makes...

I know most of you might feel using ‘of size’ as an adjective to describe my shape or my out-of-shape situation means I have taken a restraining order against grammar and semantics. But the world has changed and words like ‘fat’ are only...

The Police have not said anything yet. This column is the unofficial mouthpiece of The Policed and represents the community angle basically because I have a slot in a newspaper column and not because of any powers vested on me by the community. I am...