A voice for positive change
Friday, October 11, 2019
Ashly Thaba
US-born Ashley Thaba is determined to make a difference in her adopted motherland. Arriving in Botswana in 2000, she worked with government junior and secondary students on Character Development and HIV prevention in the Francistown area.
The experience and her training has helped Thaba become a motivational speaker, life coach, parenting consultant and author addressing real life issues such as depression, corruption and ethics, alcohol and other forms of abuse, fake prophets and others.
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...