The power of freedom square politics

UDC masses listening attentively to speakers at a political rally in Gaborone PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
UDC masses listening attentively to speakers at a political rally in Gaborone PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The shrieking sound of a bird squawking for its missing hatchlings, nestlings or fledglings is diametrically reminiscent of the Biblical lamentation and bitter weeping of Rachel in the Bible’s Old Testament. Mmegi Staffer RYDER GABATHUSE traces the power of freedom square politics

Rachel wept for her children and refused to be comforted because they were no more. You come face-to-face with this reality when you witness a mother bird crying bitterly at a freedom square space for instance, because it cannot find its young ones where it had left them.

The poor chicks have gone missing after the considerably safe environment they have been raised in, has now become hostile to them and is easily accessed by ‘strangers’ who claim total rights to the space as political activity heightens.

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