Mookane To Produce Next Mahotella Queens Singers
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
When performing at Setlalekgosi’s monster Bot50 P1 million party in Mookane, Mahotella Queen’s band leader, 74-year-old Hilda Tloubatla made a public passionate plea to the woman popularly known as ‘Ausi Pinkie’ to ensure that the next Mahotella Queens member comes from Botswana where the band leader said the group had made a name in their early years.
The band has started the process of rejuvenating themselves by replacing one of the founding trio, Mildred Mangxola by the youthful Amanda Nkosi.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...