Go and plough, Radithupa urges doubting Thomases

Rain Clouds gathers over Gaborone Main Mall PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES
Rain Clouds gathers over Gaborone Main Mall PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES

As the highly popular face of the weather bulletin, he has borne the ridicule of Batswana on social media and in public chatter whenever the forecast has not gone according to plan. He, however, often has the last laugh. Speaking to Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI, Radithupa Radithupa says farmers should forget the pain of drought and head to the fields

On social media, a search for his name springs up several memes or graphical jokes.  One is of a cat strutting proudly with the caption 'Radithupa around GC when the rains have fallen'. Another is of Radithupa in the Met Services studio with the caption 'Ke le boleletse; le nyatsa batho'.

The Department of Metrological Services chief metrologist has evolved into the lovable caricature of social media. His bold forecasts and the accuracy or lack thereof on key weather events such as imminent rains, floods and others have made him the man the public loves to hate and love.

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