It takes a village for us to be
Friday, October 21, 2022 | 190 Views |
At home: The village is the heart of traditional Setswana life PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Usually, such is life in a village. Actually, in a village, there isn’t much of a maze of a complicated ecosystem, but often just a simple human plan: here you will live, there will live somebody else; this will be her livelihood, there will be yours; and these will be your elders, there will be hers!
For your part, as for theirs, it isn’t just the wrench of village life, usually simple and sometimes hard, that has spanned your collective consciousness.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...