A spectacle of culture
Friday, May 30, 2014
Throngs of people converged at the village Kgotla for a culture spectacle that took many back into history.
Men and women from different wards offered the crowd a synopsis of how life was in the olden days. Each ward walked into the open space carrying traditional foods and utensils and other tools used in the olden days like the hand plough.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...