When scribes become vultures

Friday, October 28, 2016

Journalists descended on Selebi-Phikwe in recent weeks

FRANCISTOWN: Journalist Thalefang Charles was spot on when he recently described the local media’s camping in the beleaguered town of Selebi-Phikwe as akin to vultures camping around a beast’s carcass.

Following the abrupt closure of the BCL Mine and its Tati Nickel Mining Company’s Phoenix mine, all the media houses literally camped closer to their story and for the past two weeks, the mine story dominated the news headlines.

Almost all the print and electronic media houses camped at both the city of Francistown and the town of Selebi-Phikwe in an endeavour to tell the story of the falling mines closer to the sources.

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When scribes become vultures

FRANCISTOWN: Journalist Thalefang Charles was spot on when he recently described the local media’s camping in the beleaguered town of Selebi-Phikwe as akin to vultures camping around a beast’s carcass.

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