Setlalekgosi blazes trail through male sector
Friday, August 14, 2015
Setlalekgosi at her office.Pic.Kagiso Onkatswitse.
After a marathon telephonic session of trying to pin down Pinkie Setlalekgosi for an interview, we finally appoint to meet at her office. On the day, I arrive at the agreed time: 10am. When I enter the Sprint Couriers headquarters I’m informed that she has just left the building. Assuming that she might have forgotten our meeting, I call her on her mobile phone. “You should have arrived at least 15 minutes before the agreed time!” she charges at me.
I’m taken aback and start shaking in my boots because I think she might cancel the interview. Instead, she tells me that she will return shortly. This sets the precedent for the character Setlalekgosi is: no-nonsense, punctual, meticulous and disciplined.
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...