Of Khama selfie and fun at Khawa dunes
Friday, May 09, 2014
Women participating in the dune challenge
It is not just the flat landscape, open sky and the wide expansive road with an occasional ostrich running into the wilderness. It is not just the beautiful small villages next to the pans and roaming wild horses.
Or the dusty villages of brick houses with beat up Ford and Chevrolet trucks parked under Camel thorn tree shadows with their hard metal bodies looking defiant against the assault of the desert road.
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...