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Miss World – Travelling For Us Ala President

Miss World is like a huge conference of very slim and tall beauties with wavy hair trying to be friends while they are in competition. The hairstyles have very interesting names like carrot, pineapple, beetroot (am not too sure about this one though), Peruvian, Brazilian and other nationalities.

Not our girl. She has bucked the trend and amped the value of the street barber a few notches up by rocking up with hair that could well have been shaved by a street barber around the infamous Gaborone West Mall.

I am a regular customer at street barber shops and my backside has a very high mileage of sitting on paint cans which is the equivalent of the swivel chair at high-end hair salons. I am just keeping my fingers crossed that one day I might just happen to come across Palesa (our representative) when she goes for her shave too. I believe it will happen.

Editor's Comment
Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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