Mother�s Day: Calling all angels

Motherly love: Mothers are the cornerstone of the family
Motherly love: Mothers are the cornerstone of the family

Botswana honours mothers on Sunday to mark Mother’s Day, one of the most important and globally recognised dates on the calendar where motherhood and the role mothers and women generally play in society and the community are celebrated. Staff Writer BABOKI KAYAWE notes that present-day Botswana owes its success to the mothers across the nation

The country’s history, scarcely recorded as it is in books, is largely that of men, their achievements, their failures and their contributions.

It is written and reported from the point of view of men, local and foreign.  From the Three Chiefs, to the founding ‘fathers’, to the breadwinners who worked the mines in South Africa, men dominate the narrative.

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Botswana at a critical juncture

While the political shift brings hope for change, it also places immense pressure on the new administration to deliver on its election promises in the face of serious economic challenges.On another level, newly appointed Finance Minister Ndaba Gaolathe’s grim assessment of the country’s finances adds urgency to the moment. The budget deficit, expected to be P8.7 billion, is now anticipated to be even higher due to underperforming diamond...

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