Local poets host Swedes

Petlo Literary Arts Trust will host two poets and two journalists from Sweden next week in a cultural exchange programme.


Participants of the Petlo Poetry Karavan tour, as the programme is known, will visit Molepolole, Kanye and Manyana villages.  According to the Trust chairperson, Barolong Seboni, an eminent local writer and poet, as Karavan is a magazine focusing on the arts and culture in Norway and Sweden, it was decided to give the programme the name.  Seboni said that visitors would be taken to places of cultural interest.

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