Kebiditswe screens COVID-19 impact
Saturday, May 02, 2020
As a consequence of the COVID-19, the University of Warwick in United Kingdom, commissioned a short film that features Kebiditswe who gave an analysis of the current landscape of playwriting and the arts in Botswana.
The film also features other steering committee members of the AWPN such as Tosin Tume from Nigeria, Philiswe Tjwinstra from South Africa and AWPN founder and patron, Dr. Yvette Hutchinson from UK. The film is an overview of the network’s background, its achievements to date, as well as making the case for the need to support and promote African women playwrights.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...