Professor Parsons is mistaken

Friday, February 01, 2008

In his article "What chance of a film industry in Botswana?" (18 January 2008) Neil Parsons provides your readers with more than a few errors in fact.

Given that accuracy in recording and reporting information is as important to the field of history as it is to journalism, we were surprised and disappointed.

This letter will only deal with his sentences on Dipolelo Video Arts/Storyline Media, which are pretty much wrong from start to finish.

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