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Hoping against hope

Kepu
Kepu

With a mid-season dry spell appearing year after year to wreak havoc on local agriculture, farmers in the country are once again facing crop failure, but doing their best to cope with the ‘new normal’. Mmegi journalists PHATSIMO KAPENG & LARONA MAKHAIZA found stories of hope and despair in the South this week

Kgosietsile Motlhabane, 40,

Mmamairing, Mogobane“I planted maize, watermelons, sweet reed, beans, lab lab, and squash. The government is the one that did the planting for me and we ploughed two hectares.

Editor's Comment
Human rights are sacred

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...

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