Segaetsho � A colossus of a man

In 1995, I organised an interview with Ms Montlenyane Baaitse of Radio Botswana’s (RB 1) Masa-a-sele programme. As secondary school teachers in Sefhare, we were forming a secondary school teachers’ organisation. RB 1 then had characteristics of a public broadcaster and allowed the interview. Thousands of teachers were apparently listening to the radio as I and a colleague, Mbanga Mbanga, were planning to form a teacher association.

That interview led to what is BOSETU today, having metamorphosed from Botswana Federation of Secondary School Teachers association (BOFESETE), which had then. Then, it was difficult to publicise the activities of BOFESETE to the teachers and the nation at large for them to know that there was a teacher organisation. Radio was the answer.