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        <title><![CDATA[P200 –wrapped Petals: End of An Error Thanks To BoB]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If you’re a lady expecting a 100-long-stemmed-rose bouquet and a trip to the Bahamas, you might be in the wrong time zone. Botswana women have argued for decades — feel free to Goo...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dump Stars: Not on Valentine’s Day]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Granted, it is an ill-fitting wig and so this advice should be taken with a large dose of PG. For quite a while I didn’t have the testicular fortitude to wade into this territory b...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Let’s Rain Check Those New Year’s Resolutions Once Again]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It’s not our fault, right? Every gathering is an all-you-can-eat buffet, and calories magically become festive cheer! You know the drill: You promise yourself you won’t go overboar...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dogs to pay tax]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This was an answer to the call to local governments to come up with new avenues of revenue collection. So the smart Gaborone City (GC) civic leaders decided that dogs should pay ta...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Breaking Rumours - MP Resigns]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The smarter reader would have deduced that my occupation is a hustler, which is street speak for &#39;unemployed&#39;. So in my world, anyone who gets a salary with allowances like...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who the heaven leaked exams?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Heads must roll. Heads will roll. Heads must somewhat find a way to clean this mess. The time for lip flapping is so gone. We cannot afford to sit idly by when the integrity of our...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Guns for politicians - And us]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Work? Usually such grand and strange ideas don’t always work. The whole purpose of legislation is to come up with something that will satiate the masses but it doesn’t necessarily...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mantshwabisi: The return to Jwaneng]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I am thinking here of jingles like ‘After doing the nice and nasty at the Desert Race do not forget the constitutional visit to our pharmacies dotted around our villages and towns’...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Weighty language and life Issues]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I know most of you might feel using ‘of size’ as an adjective to describe my shape or my out-of-shape situation means I have taken a restraining order against grammar and semantics...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Wild Wild G-West: Statement from the Policed]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Police have not said anything yet. This column is the unofficial mouthpiece of The Policed and represents the community angle basically because I have a slot in a newspaper col...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Idiots Season]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is a month of love where you are at least expected to show your partner you love them through buying them gifts like chocolate, colognes and a bouquet of flowers. Most of us u...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cat-Kicking Kurt: The kick and the farce]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is at the level of seriousness of a national budget speech. Little wonder the two happened at around the same time. Kicking a cat is apparently a huge deal and something that co...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Men’s conference: A Valentine’s Day alternative]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Men don’t take too kindly to advice yet they are quick to dish it out. I also received some backlash from people merely because they could not afford gifts for their partners. Mind...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 21:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Africa Nations Cup: The spectacle and the debacles]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Admittedly, fairness is overrated and that is why these guys spend most of their time entertaining Tony Blair, Beyonce, Shakira, Steve Harvey and other celebrities who might just h...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The fuel increase pandemic]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In our country when the court cannot make up its mind, instant lawyers and judges sprout all over the place. People that do not even have a certificate of attendance in Arguing at...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[January – A season of sadness after madness]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is a season of detoxing and flushing out the toxins from the body. Don’t be fooled though if you hear this. It is not that people have suddenly become health conscious. It is a...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2022 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Customer Disservice: Consumer Watchcat Perspective]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are other victims we hardly ever talk about. Radio Botswana (RB) never talks about them. RB 2 never does either. Not even their elder sibling BTV. There are no rights group f...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Miss World – Travelling For Us Ala President]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Not our girl. She has bucked the trend and amped the value of the street barber a few notches up by rocking up with hair that could well have been shaved by a street barber around...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Legalised Scams]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If I was in Parliament that self-effacing speaker we all love would have said ‘Where’s ze evdence’. Ze evdence will follow shortly. Just keep reading. The police, the government, F...]]></description>
        <author>Thulaganyo Jankey</author>
        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2021 06:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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