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However, the study says this happened some 200,000 years ago when the landscape was a lake, lush green and replete with even more wildlife on which our forebears feasted. This is based on the research led by, amongst others, geneticist Professor...

However, what is heart-warming is that their research is real science and the proposed location offers much weightier possibilities than the ‘Lost City of the Kalahari’ in the van De Post fables. What is reassuring, therefore, is that the...

Last Saturday I joined a few hundred mourners to celebrate Francis Nyamhuka’s life and entomb his body at Zororo Cemeteries in the Zengeza area of Harare, Zimbabwe. A teacher by profession, Francis rose through the ranks and was head teacher at...

However, the prospects of Cyclone Kenneth compelled our postponement of the visit to a later time. That did not stop me from thinking about my last visit to Mozambique some four years ago. And that is exactly my point, sometimes mission assignments...

One would think that Forest Hill with its hosting of Moreneng, a convent and St. Josephs College, represents the earliest part of the Catholic Church activity in Botswana. The present day splendour of hosting the Commerce Park, Game City, Ave...

The track’s proper title ‘s Malwedhe. Aged 25, King Monada’s real name is Steven Khutso Kgatla and his nickname  is Monadaros. I join those who predict that there will be a few black parties without this song during the festive...

He reminded me of the songs they sing at weddings when they are drunk with jealousy: dikuku di monate, lenyalo le boima rona re a tsamaya le tla sala le di bona or perhaps most fitting “O thetha ka di suit kgomo di seyo mo sakeng”. The Museums...