The gist of the message is summed up in the boxed highlighted summary: “Botswana has over recent years made great strides towards gender equality with several government policies and initiatives in place to promote women in business, to help them with networking recognition in the workplace and guidance in career development.”
No Motswana can deny the inspirational achievement of the two ladies pictured and recognised in the article; they have projected the innate quality of women on the public screen; the irrepressible struggle, the woman talent by Batswana women in particular, to draw level with their male counterparts in open competition, to show that whatever men can do they can do and do better! I wish to congratulate the two models, at the same time extend my compliments to many more of their ‘tribe’ yet to be blazoned in newspaper headlines. You’re the light illuminating the way ahead. We know you represent many of the rest of your oppressed “tribe”, who anxiously wait to be recognised publicly and many more who will never be acknowledged because they’ll never have the opportunity since ‘many a flower (in Botswana) is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air!’ Emang, Basadi! The time is now. Let me also differ with the writer who seems to imply, what the two women have achieved, is for themselves. My view is, what they have done, and continue to do, they’ll do for the image of Batswana women, as shining models for future generations. The objective at the moment is to awaken the rulers from their deep age-old somnolence, to review hopefully, their policy of neglect of the critical resource of the nation, women!
