Survivors of the information superhighway
Friday, January 30, 2015
In the mid-1980s, Mogale was working at Air Botswana when he had the novel idea of starting a newsstand. When he started, he used the income from the newspaper sales to augment his salary, which he describes as ‘meagre’.
“I later quit my job with the airline and dedicated my time to the small business,” he recalls.
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...