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Botsalo Ntuane
  • Emmanuel Bane's Fond Recollections. A choice assortment of little gems fit for prescribed set book and leisure reading!

    As the golden nectar and other fire waters take over our faculties, inhibitions also recede. Soon we are overcome by nostalgia for the times when we thought   we would be forever young, and the fun would never end. As the night  wears...

  • The Doctor Khumalo Story: A Football Biography by Olebile Sikwane

    With passage of time that delightful little memoir rose up the bestseller lists and assumed the status of a cult classic for fans of the English game, particularly those who followed Arsenal. Fever Pitch coincided with the globalisation of the...

  • So long Dan, the talisman of Mapantsola

    But even then, they were in the words of Chinua Achebe, outsiders weeping louder than the bereaved. The  most palpable  grief  was felt  in  the community of Sapeurs, the dandy,  immaculately turned out movement of ...

  • On the road with Uncle John and Ausi Sonti to bury Ray Phiri (Pt II)

    Then the mighty Franco Makiadia and his  group OK Jazz came on tour. Other big names from Zaire including Johnny Bokello also came to Bulawayo  and  the young  John hung around, watched, listened and learnt. Surrounded by music,...

  • On the road with Uncle John and Ausi Sonti to bury Ray Phiri( Pt1)

    12 July  Ray Phiri is dead. A flurry of activity follows this Wednesday  morning as radio and television stations swing into action with tributes flooding in after what is a completely unforeseen demise. Only those who read South African...

  • BDP Must Not Waver On Death Penalty

    It is the latter sentiment that was more pronounced, underlining the fact that mainstream Botswana remains in support of capital punishment. In between  very  few  reserved their opinion because the death penalty naturally  stokes...

  • Dreams of eating life with a big spoon in London

    The Mighty Have Fallen My life changed the day I lost elections. I saw it coming. Back in June 2014, four months before the polls  I had a chat with  my missus and told her there is no way  we are winning and she must brace herself...

  • Response to BR Express service breakdown

    We have noted the unhappiness  expressed by many of our citizens at the unfortunate development which admittedly  does not provide a good advertisement  for this very essential service which  travellers  have  been...

  • BDP Reform Agenda Conversation; 22 Discussion Points (Part 2)

    You will notice they are  not prescriptive but a jumble sale of ideas to set the tone knowing  you guys  might  have additional thoughts on others that can form the basis  of the reform  conversation our party ought to...

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