Bye bye Mma Ollie

Her favourite example was that she religiously watched foreign news on television by different broadcasting stations and that their reporting will always be different. The facts are the same but the approach is different. Mma Ollie’s counsel in such a quandary was that each reporter should present his perspective to his audience. I remembered her wisdom when I was hesitant to write this tribute.

Mma Ollie or Mosadimogolo as the young reporters fondly called her in whispers was a mentor to generations of journalists in this country. The celebrated Outsa Mokones, Spencer Mogapis, Aubrey Lutes, Abraham Motsokonos and Galebolae Ngakanes, of this world went through her hands. Before her demise last week Thursday she had been in the game for more than three decades.