No Kuru dance fest three years on
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Kuru Festival
Kuru Development Trust (KDT) board chairperson, Aaron Johannes, informed D’Kar community at a kgotla meeting recently that the dance festival will not be held this year as they have no sponsors.
He revealed that they had managed to secure sponsorship from Debswana, but because of the row between KDT and Letloa Trust, the diamond company decided to pull out of a three-year sponsorship deal they had promised.
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...