Monax Shelter Provides Elderly With Warm Food

Monax Shelter feeds the elderly in Metsimotlhabe PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Monax Shelter feeds the elderly in Metsimotlhabe PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Many Batswana see the issue of retirement homes as a foreign concept which in their view does not apply to ‘our’ society

Over the years, it has become visible that more and more elderly people are struggling due to many factors, be it that their children have moved to towns in search of greener pastures, or just that they have outlived their children.

The big question is what happens to those elderly people who can no longer fend for themselves? Western countries have many retirement homes, which provide the elderly with facilities for company and companionship, meals, gatherings, recreation activities and some form of health care.

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Khama, Masisi should rise above personal differences

Hurt as he may have been, former president Ian Khama, Sir Seretse’s senior son who was given an opportunity to speak on behalf of the Seretse family, couldn’t mince his words as he took advantage to shred his successor Mokgweetsi Masisi to pieces.He, however, did not clearly mention names but he referred to Masisi as the leader of a political party that was founded amongst others by his father.He would also address him as the former State...

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