The Zezuru: Botswana's opportunity for industry

Given the Zezuru predilection for hard work and the fact that Botswana has not had much success at industrialisation, it seems only right to engage the Zezuru in dialogue towards equipping them for industrial production, writes LAWRENCE OOKEDITSE

Last week's papers reported on the closure of a Zezuru 'initiation school' in Selebi-Phikwe.  "This school was operating from a pastor's home and had 24 school-going children aged between five and 15 years," Mmegi reported.

"Investigations revealed that the school had been operating since 2002, did not have a syllabus and the teacher was an illegal immigrant from Zimbabwe."

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Human rights are sacred

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...

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