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Mantshwabisi: The return to Jwaneng

By the time this column lands on your lap the Toyota Desert Race would have happened and half the pharmacies in the country would have run out of the morning-after pill. Pharmacies form part of the value chain for these events and the sponsors would do well to recognise their importance in their promotional messages.

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 the race because last time I wrote about this part of the race, I received a very hot mail from an unhappy regular Mantshwabisi patron.

It was actually a warning disguised as a letter. The unhappy patron warned me to desist from poking my nasty, oxygen-sucking nose into the issues of the Desert Race and accused me of being a devil reincarnate of sorts. Ok, my nose is a bit on the bigger side I must admit but up to now I still cannot figure out how he knows this unflattering fact as I have never met him. He tongue-in-cheek threatened to remove every bone in my anatomy and feed them to the predators in the desert and rid the world of one meddlesome scribe.

Editor's Comment
Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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