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Life in the kotoisi

Friday, September 29, 2023 | 710 Views |
Good, old days: The passenger train was the centre of activity and excitement for villages along the main North-South railway line
Good, old days: The passenger train was the centre of activity and excitement for villages along the main North-South railway line

Waking up and retiring to the boisterous buzzers of transit trains at the Palapye railway station was a sacrament that completed our day as children partly raised at the bunged two one-roomed houses offered to railway track maintenance labourers and others that dotted a long stretch of area adjacent to the main railway line. Mmegi Staffer RYDER GABATHUSE follows his youthful days in a kotoisi

Hopping between the spaces where I was raised at Boikago ward in Palapye and the kotoisi just a stone’s throw away from Lotsane River was an exciting experience that had already made the Palapye railway station my second home.

The railway compound, kotoisi, was a must visit place partly because the space was available to my grandmother who plied the trade brewing traditional concoction otherwise known as mokuru.

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