A spectacle of culture

As the world celebrated International Culture Day last Friday, the village of Mmopane, on the outskirts of Gaborone, was abuzz with action.

Throngs of people converged at the village Kgotla for a culture spectacle that took many back into history.

Men and women from different wards offered the crowd a synopsis of how life was in the olden days. Each ward walked into the open space carrying traditional foods and utensils and other tools used in the olden days like the hand plough.

Editor's Comment
Get back what was stolen, and lock the door

That a single private law firm pocketed P6.5 million for just four cases, out of a total P11.1 million paid for 25 matters, reeks of a system that was not merely disorganised but open to abuse.Bayford has taken a welcome first step by telling the Public Accounts Committee the truth. Now he must act decisively to ensure it never happens again and that any money lost to wrongdoing is recovered.The figures are staggering. Whilst ordinary Batswana...

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