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Woes of a forgotten citizenry: 57 years later

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Early days: Batswana have come far from their agrarian roots. This was Serowe in1934 PIC: WIKIMEDIA.COM

They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single footstep and 57 years ago the nation put one step forward, a step in a terrain marred by a foggy uncertainty of what would become of a once upon a time Bechuanaland.

As the curtain falls on September, many are always taken aback at what the “underdog” has turned into. For those who were alive on the day 57 years ago, many still fail to reconcile what they see in the present with the bleak yesteryears of Botswana at its formation.

The failure of course being the stranglehold on the imagination of trying to reconcile what was, with what is.

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Woes of a forgotten citizenry: 57 years later

They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single footstep and 57 years ago the nation put one step forward, a step in a terrain marred by a foggy uncertainty of what would become of a once upon a time Bechuanaland.

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