�Hell Nino� hunts the helpless

Friday, January 22, 2016

White maize meal prices are due to rise 30 percent, cattle and other livestock are dying in the heat, the Botswana Meat Commission has slashed its slaughter days and everywhere, a sense of dread is mounting. Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI, reports on the year in which a little-known phenomenon has become a household name

The story is told of a traditional leader attending the commissioning of the new Gaborone Dam wall in the mid-1980s.

Overawed by the vast amount of water, shimmering way into the horizon, the traditional leader is said to have vowed to eat his elbow should the Dam ever fail.

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