We Are The People Of The Sun

Motswana has a unique way of greetings. After the usual “Dumela…” in hot summer days, immediately comes “eish, letsatsi le! Re sule. Batho ba hedile, ba wa jaaka dintsi…”  The conversation is just how much we are being roasted in this heat, how people are just dropping dead from the extreme weather.

In winter the conversation is “se serame se tlile gore bolaya…” A nation ever thirsting for rain and water, when the skies open up, aah! “Pula ke ye bathong, e netse ruri, diwashene ga di ome…”