Issues
Thursday, May 16, 2013
We live in a traditional society. Before I go any further, let me make a very clear distinction between 'tradition' and 'culture'. Culture is a living thing and changes all the time.
It is the way in which we speak, eat, dress, make music, the way we dance, act and live in general. Tradition on the other hand, is a rather static phenomenon, which is exactly why it has the potential to cause problems.Essentially, tradition prescribes how we should live, how we should do things, how we should run our lives. The problem with tradition is that it dictates us to do things in a certain way, not for any particular reason but 'because that is the way it is done'.
We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...