The significance of Balete as the hosts of National Culture Day
Friday, May 19, 2017
Barwa kgodumo as the poets always hail them will always go down as the first tribe to crown a woman (Kgosi Mosadi Seboko) as their paramount Chief in August 2003.
The tribes traditionally called the Bamalete who venerate the buffalo (nare) are not one of the tribes attributed to Sotho-Tswana but rather commoners of Nguni.
It is a clear signal that the government’s purse is empty and that our own behaviour has left veterinary officials fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. We have been here before. During COVID-19, many of us thought we knew better. We ignored simple rules, we carried on as if the danger was someone else’s problem, and the virus took lives and left our economy on its knees. We are still broke from that experience. Yet now, with FMD...