Otherwise, if you don’t have height, not many women would convert you into a husband quickly. If you don’t have patience, who do you expect to accompany your wife when she goes shopping? I think shopping is a woman’s attempt to get back at the...
I surmised that ‘That column’ would have meant Ink Spills. I was flattered. Ink Spills is now referred to as ‘that column’, which means it is steadily creeping towards being referred to as ‘the column’ – an upgrade of ‘that column’....
Only 30% of the people are interested in the contents of the SONA. But one must survive these long speeches without losing their will to live. Many people attend the SONA for 3 things really. First they want to see the fashion parade and the whole...
This past week, I went to one of the government departments. For you to get service before sunset, you have to arrive at around 3 am and strike a friendship with a security guard. When you arrive at that time, you will be number 83. I arrived at 5:00...
And because sometimes your smarts desert you I failed to Google this and get out of my misery. Unfortunately for me a friend asked what actually a flash flood is and I mumbled off that it was actually just a fancy word for a flood to make it sound...
In fact two of them! Almost every year now one of our athletes is busted for doping. This is not news anymore. Experts warn that if this trend continues, the public may begin to experience ‘news fatigue,’ a condition where headlines are met with...
That’s not just a skills gap—it’s a performance cliff. Innovation without education is like handing someone a spaceship and hoping they figure out the controls mid-flight. One manager once chilling said ‘half my team still thinks “the...
You know, those ladies that seemed to have lost their way en route to a nightclub. Usually the Agneses are there for the hot dogs and to see perfectly-toned bodies of players when they take off their tops after scoring a goal. The famous hotdogs from...
Most mums are very good parents, but maybe not very good judges of athletic ability. You get all sorts of encouragement and accolades from your mum when you start doing those house Olympics which involve running three metres inside the house without...
Men are either not properly scrubbed, laugh too loud or eat with their mouths open. Women have so many things that they feel men need a software update for. From the wardrobe disaster of owning three shirts (one for weddings, one for funerals and one...
This is a tribute to both national pride and sporting excellence and features Botswana’s first-ever Olympic gold medalist. On the flipside is the 4 x 400m men’s team that won silver at the Paris 2024 Olympics. So what this means is that for a...
You could be writing a column on football and some distressed reader would ask you about how to rear fantail pigeons with. You could be an agony aunt and you would get letters from readers wanting to know your opinion regarding the strife in Gaza....
SMMEs are the present, the past. I believe the first business ever was an SMME, and the last business in operation on Judgment Day would also be an SMME. SMMEs do not have the time to spend deciphering government forms written in ancient bureaucratic...
Back then, having bulging biceps was equated to being macho. And handsome! Someone once told me that girls were not interested only in looks -- that the qualities that really mattered were brains and a sense of humor. The truth is that -- and I speak...
This funeral just happened to be at a small village on the peripheries of the city where people behave and act like city-dwellers. At any funeral, the fiercest battles are fought not with words... but with chairs. There was a VIP seating and ordinary...
The country is clinging to life by a single, frayed thread. During this time there will be a lot of speeches on TV and radio by ministers trying to assure people that though the tide is against the country they are busy rowing. Given the cost of...
Botswana is according to her a sprawling showroom of this budget-friendly vehicle. She stopped short of saying ‘Forget the zebra. Let's put a Demio on the coat of arms. Or better yet, a whole herd of them, all meticulously parked. The Honda Fit...
A true miscalculation - similar to when an ex-GC mayor crossed the floor to join the then ruling party which promptly lost elections and became a minority opposition. This was akin to diving head first into the devil’s embrace. She went to court....
Well, before I catch any strays let me just say it is the council by-law officers who are saying this. After years and years of sitting back and watching the city residents eat unhygienic food the officers got an epiphany and decided to sanction all...
Winning an argument with a bus conductor 3. Accountability Government has decided to constitute the Public Accounts Committee to ask the government captains ‘where is the money’. The committee chairing the hearings has been carefully selected by...
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