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Building strong, effective school teams

I just cannot resist the temptation of prefacing the subject of building strong and effective school teams with a story telling.

The setting was the University of Botswana in the 1990s. Perhaps due to the passage of time, I just have no recollection of the exact academic year it was.

The Student Representative Council (SRC) convened a general assembly of students to moot the idea of boycotting intervarsity games. Several factors were advanced as to why everyone should rally behind the call to boycott the games.

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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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