Create a flavour packed bowl with rice and black beans, veggies, and fresh avocado. Serve up a big bowl of amazing colour, making sure not to forget some zesty lime flavours full of nutrients. We can very well throw this meal into the category of...
It must be something in the National Stadium air that make seemingly short projects take forever to complete. Many would remember how more than a decade ago the people who are charged with coming up with good ideas came up with a good idea. The...
Last week, the nation endured some anxious moments as the country prepared to host the FNB Botswana Golden Grand Prix. The National Stadium, which closed for track renovations in November and was due for completion in March, was not ready right up to...
When we meet new people, curiosity creeps forward, hungry to know who they are beneath the surface: What makes them laugh? What do they fear? Have they ever watched the sunrise from a rooftop? It’s not just facts we want, it’s nuances, history,...
Twelve million people have been displaced, and hundreds of thousands have been killed. Women and girls have become victims of systematic sexual violence. Entire cities and villages have been razed to the ground. And yet, this war receives little...
Students’ performance data is an advisory note on how well the teachers are delivering classroom instruction and how well students are receiving classroom instruction and applying themselves. Teaching and assessment make teacher-student classroom...
' In simpler terms: it might flood. That is what that jargon meant. When the weatherman say “flood,” we all know it is time to take him/her more seriously unlike when he/she says ‘fine but partly cloudy’. Last time out many paid the...
With seven games before curtains fall on the 2024-2025 season, four teams are tied to each other like glue. It is proving very difficult to separate grain from chaff as the season hits the home straight. By this time of the season, fans would have...
While the internet has provided a platform for political networking, social interaction, and information sharing, it has also given rise to a serious and pervasive issue: cyberbullying.Often associated with teenagers and young people, cyberbullying...
She was a soft spoken, unassuming but gifted teacher. One of her enviable qualities, which endeared her to the students, was the wisdom of building harmonious and cordial relations with her students while also making them feel at ease. Teachers who...
It paralyzes, when escape is inches away. Yet, in its pulsating core lies truth, a reminder of mortality, of vulnerability. To face it is to acknowledge one’s fragility. To overcome it is to embrace inner strength, a fleeting victory over the...
What I had made, yielded a medium batch and I then curated a Charcuterie board that looked too pretty to eat and will most certainly be part of my next spread when I host the girls or do the first table talk for 2025. With a date set for Women’s...
I overlooked her mentioning that it was a Birthday Cake. Honestly, I am better off not having had full awareness that it was a birthday cake. I might have chickened out of doing it. But this red velvet Inkomazi cake is fool proof. Baking is a science...
It turned out he wasn’t quite into it. Imagine. After all that effort. Nobody warned us about this age, bathong! Anyhow, pumpkin is typically larger, rounder in shape, with a thicker, more ridged skin and a slightly stringier flesh compared to a...
I think growing up for most of us it was cool to say ‘purchase an automobile’ which was actually simply ‘buy a car’. This has since faded like Sly Stallone’s six pack and is firmly in the rearview mirror. Yes, language keeps evolving but it...
Countless celebrations have come through the track as athletics has recorded the most significant moments in Botswana's 58 year history. No code comes close to athletics in delivering decisive moments, with all four Olympic Games medals won since...
Although the Pretoria peace agreement brought temporary calm, the rifts between the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) remain deep. Instead of securing lasting peace, the agreement has internally divided...
That is how schooling experience felt in the last half of the 1970s. The school system was less tolerant of anything coming outside itself . The school even changed the names of our parents and grandparents gave us and replaced them with its own...
It’s less ‘follow the money” and more “chase the missing decimal points.’ Unlike before it has not been given a Setswana name like the previous ones such as the Kgabo Commission. It is simply: the forensic audit. I think this is meant to...
. You can change the faces but it seems, not the modus operandi at the Lekidi Football Centre. In Animal Farm, when Mr Jones left, there was hope for change, but before the book ends, the old habits return in even more ruthless fashion. At the BFA,...
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