La Fete de la Musique moves to Molapo Piazza

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Newly-built Molapo Piazza will be the host venue of this year’s La Fête de la Musique, which will take place this Saturday afternoon.

The international annual event, which is celebrated in more than 120 countries, was initiated in 1982 by French minister Jack Lang. Alliance Francaise has been organising the event in Botswana for the past 12 years.

 “As much as we have enjoyed our cooperation with Botswana Craft, we want to make the festival grow bigger,” said Lucie Janyk one of the event coordinators.

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Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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