Capital market captain sails to new shores
Friday, May 03, 2024 | 480 Views |
New horizons: Tsheole led the BSE for eight years PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Mmegi: Briefly, take us through your career, specifically what led you to choose the capital market as a career choice?
Tsheole: In terms of my career, I was originally a sciences student at high school, at Molefi Senior Secondary School, doing pure sciences. My intention was always to pursue a science-based career, up until I got to National Service where after interacting with a lot of people, I realised I would do much better in the social sciences. Therefore, I went to the University of Botswana and chose a Bachelor of Social Science and in this, we were taught several subjects such as psychology.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...