Butale, an advocate for change

“Over the years I have tried to engage in various attempts to entrench freedom of expression in Botswana, South Africa and the African region because I believe freedom of expression is fundamental in any democracy and is a facilitative right through which citizens can enjoy like any other rights,” says Butale matter-of-factly.

His academic background began at the University of Botswana (UB) in the 1990s up to Master’s level. In 2010 he started his PhD at Stellenbosch University, which he completed last year December. “The topic I did was Literal Depictions of Poverty as Sources of Authoritative Knowledge on Indigents. In the study I am trying to look at the need for more qualitative studies that have been found to be more lively and with insider perspective of the poor themselves, to compliment mathematical gradations and estimations that are often associated with quantitative analysis,” he explains.