One could loosely think of three or so generations of writers and print journalists who became household names around that time - starting with the first generation of writers, who were active from the 1970s onwards, and were by and large linked to or originated from the Botswana Press Agency (BOPA) stable. This group of media practitioners and journalists are best epitomised by the likes of the late Paul Rantao, Batshani Ndaba, Bapasi Mpusu, Samuel Moribame, Russ Molosiwa and Kgosinkwe Moesi.
For the most part, these were professionally trained journalists who had acquired their degrees and diplomas in journalism or mass communications from universities in Africa, Europe and America.Then there was what one might also, broadly speaking, refer to as the second generation of print journalists, feature writers and columnists.This group of newspaper journalists largely came to the fore around the mid-1980s, and included such notable scribes as Methaetsile Leepile, Titus Mbuya, Keineetse Keineetse, Keto Segwai and Augustine Mathumo.Lastly, a third crop of writers, who became active and were widely read in the mid to the late 1990s and thereafter, soon came to prominence around that time.
