Maforaga rediscovers artistic calling
Friday, February 16, 2018
“I am stuck with drawing and painting, and I have figured after so many years of dumping this talent I might as well give it another chance.
It just can’t go away,” he said. Maforaga is the go-to person for portrait paintings and pencil drawings in Palapye. He is a fine artist. His portraits hang in different top offices, hotels and lodges in the village. He has done portraits and different art pieces for prominent people across the country. He ekes a living out of art, but his fulfilment is not the money he gets from selling art pieces, it is the quality of what he produces.
While it is widely acknowledged that Khama holds the title of Kgosi, the government’s failure to properly gazette his recognition has raised serious concerns about adherence to legal procedures and the credibility of traditional leadership. (See a story elsewhere in this newspaper.) Recent court documents by the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Kgotla Autlwetse, shed light on the intricacies of Khama’s recognition process....