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How many teachers, facing overcrowded classrooms, are expected to include autistic learners without training, specialist support, or clear national guidelines? And perhaps the most important question: how many children are we quietly failing without...

“You know,” she said, “this whole language of decolonisation that is now so loud [in Canadian institutions] began with African scholars.” She’s right.Long before decolonisation became a buzzword in Western universities and policy circles,...

At the time, I was managing a small but committed team of reporters charged with covering the pulse of northern Botswana, its politics, people, and pressing issues. The job required long hours, sharp instincts, and above all, a deep sense of...

Imagine a six-year-old boy named Ndiye, eagerly starting Standard 1 for the first time. Having grown up in a Kalanga-speaking household, Ndiye was nurtured by the warmth of his parents’ and grandparents’ stories (ngano), rich with metaphors and...

The Namibian elections have come and gone, and while the ruling party, SWAPO, managed to retain power, the cracks in its once-dominant political armor are impossible to ignore. After ruling Namibia since its independence in 1990, SWAPO’s loss of...

SIMS Broker Consultant, Thabo Moipolai, revealed this last Thursday when presenting the unit trust to potential customers at Marang Residency, a part of Marang Hotel, in Francistown. Moipolai told Monitor Business that the equity fund would be...