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 cases of motorists without seatbelts in Mmutlane News article 3: In Bonwapitse a drunk villager was charged with stock theft involving three hens and a cat. News article 4: ‘Here in Pitseng we set off fire crackers to exorcise Judas deeds On Btv bland news seems a thing.
You could be chasing a mongrel guilty of eating unfertiliszed eggs and make it into the evening news. You could be having an argument about ownership of mangoes because the tree canopy straddles the adjoining yards and make headlines. Btv news represents the stereotype of a third world TV news bulletin found in almost every third world country ever made. Everything about them scream third rate. Some places do not make the news. If they do make the news it is usually because the minister had visited their kgotla and the excited villagers have about 20 seconds of fame during question time. This is the time where you hear questions like ‘Minister, when are we going to have more schools in our village? I have been forced to send my son to Driving School some hundreds of kilometres away because we do not have enough schools in this village’. To some villagers Driving School is some kind of tertiary education facility! Of course, for a lot of small village residents, dullness is part of the appeal.
