Mma Matante: The Matriarch Falls

It’s never easy to write about a public figure you have a personal relationship with, for what you know of them may not necessarily be what the world saw.

But it will be amiss of me not to try.

To the world beyond, Mma Matante was a powerhouse of sorts but to us, she was a loving ever-present mother to the neighbourhood children, as she was to her own.

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Batswana should unite against A1 fatalities

The A1 highway, stretching from Ramatlabama to Ramokgwebana, is the backbone of Botswana's transport network. It carries passenger buses, private vehicles, haulage trucks and cross-border commercial traffic linking Botswana with other SADC countries. Yet, despite its strategic importance, the road remains narrow, congested and increasingly dangerous.Successive governments have acknowledged the need to upgrade the A1 into a dual carriageway....

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