Is Gaborone ready?

Within the next three weeks, Gaborone will be swamped with more than 2,500 athletes from 54 African countries for what will be the greatest sporting event Botswana has ever hosted, the Africa Youth Games (AYG).

The economic spinoffs to SMMEs, the informal and the formal sector are nearly immeasurable. A market of 2,500 consumers and hundreds of support staff descending with fistfuls of allowances and being restricted to spending only within Gaborone. The stuff of which dreams are made!

For months now, sponsors, nominated officials and the media have been drumming up awareness around the event. They are ready.

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Closure as pain lingers

March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...

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