Local Fashion Industry Growing In Leaps And Bounds
Monday, November 12, 2018
Modern Tswana Fashion Week is a fashion house bringing the indigenous culture and fitting it into modern lifestyle. This year they hosted their third Fashion Night out event, which took place over the weekend at Planet Lodge. Founder and chief organiser, James Chikumo explained to Showtime how their aim is to take the roots of the nation and sync them with modern lifestyle.
“Our aim is to showcase raw talent in our beautiful land and we feel like making it a once off event is not enough,” Chikumo said.
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...