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This is before the powers that be figured out that an airport that close to the hustle and bustle of the city could result in aeroplanes crashing on top of people’s heads (and ruining their expensive hairstyles) or inside the stadium when a match...

Before long some seemingly simple event that you thought you had understood completely has evolved into something completely different and usually far more bizarre.A local team called Gaborone United (GU) is supposed to host a team from DRC. Nothing...

Like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those safety goggles and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those safety goggles.But please...

The script is usually predictable. First there’s an argument about who is wrong. After a few verbal exchanges the less vocal one somewhat concedes with a ‘let’s call the police’ refrain. And then the script veered off course with one motorist...

Sometimes I feel the city needs excitement. Verging on weird even.Ok I agree half the city is conservative especially the inner city retired folk whose main vocation is buying a newspaper and arguing about the contents and trying to juxtapose with...

To perhaps increase their chances at winning medals, the whole United Kingdom fragments into England, Scotland, Nothern Ireland and Wales. This is very clever. Fairness does seem an intrusion here. Their opponents don’t seem to have realised this....

The mask has a bit of tainted history because it was used by robbers to redistribute property and money, but this was somewhat sterilised by the onset of COVID-19.It morphed from being an outlaws’ tool of trade to being a powerful weapon to thwart...

Hell, even funeral undertakers are increasing the cost of funerals and blaming it on the cost of living. Fresh hell just dropped it seems.How did we even get here? Despite all this meltdown we are always hopeful that we will somewhat turn the corner...

When I told the same Zillennial I was born in the 1960s, they wondered whether I was a slave at one point. I am a Baby Boomer and any discussion with a Zillenials is punctuated with ‘how did you manage that without a laptop’, ‘how come there...

As an athlete any animal, plant and drug on that list gives one some superhero powers and can at the very extreme make your legs grow some wings. Well, something like that where you suddenly now develop an ability to outsprint everyone.Some American...

The names Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky are especially hard for us to pronounce. Our most enduring contact with Europeans was with the group led by a queen whose language of communication was English.Putin sounds suspiciously English and of...

They would neatly type your details on a slip of paper and your salary details and deductions and put it in an envelope. Since I had just started working, there were not many deductions save for tax unlike my more experienced colleagues whose payment...

Our most alluring image of the efforts of our team is a midfielder who burst a ball by blocking an opponent – hardly the stuff to bump up one’s football pedigree. But some local fans were desperate to rose colour our Afcon effort and exploited...

It was also an attempt to prove that local companies can actually help government’s effort to keep kids off the streets and I was the guinea pig. My dad was pro-establishment and he would have heard and heeded the call more than most citizens. One...

In the history of strike action, no bus and taxi operators have ever had any strike without elements of violence. In fact, they don’t even need strikes to get violent. Their work place is usually an unorthodox blend of madness and strife. Sometimes...