To date, Botswana is globally envied for its infrastructural development of roads, hospitals, schools, streetlights and all the trappings of prosperity and modernity. Add good education, health, socio-economic advancement and other positive attributes the country is renowned for around the world.
That is because of diamonds and they were first mined in Boteti. The region has now spawned another gem. This is Rodger Mcedisi Solomon, a 30-year-old primary school teacher at Tsienyane Primary School, who is now the treasurer of the giant Botswana Trade Union (BTU). A dapper-looking fellow in a suave jacket and equally trendy slacks, the dark and smooth complexioned Solomon passes for a man about town, out to make females swoon as they espy him through office shutters when he swaggers by. Or an upstart in a government office with hopes of one day getting a promotion a notch higher than where he is currently vegetating. This is what you get from Solomon before you scratch the surface, and once you do, a gem will start radiating its unimaginable brilliance.
