In fact, he doesn’t even know the owner of the land. His only fear is being evicted by the council authorities but this is an unfounded fear though. In a country where politicians have the final say in everything Ben is well aware that should the...
The December air just has that thing that gets the rational brain cells going on vacation when they should be putting on a shift bigger than our diamond marketers.December is the most loved month in the calendar. This is mainly because when this...
Many of us remember our first date with a tinge of embarrassment. For a good number of us we experienced that classic "whoops" moment of accidentally knocking over your drink and drenching your date's new outfit.What are the challenges of...
. Read that again. Nowhere did I mention any sort of pill so before you start thinking this column is a birth control workshop sorry to disappoint you. This remains a column laced with silliness and a dash of humor. No, there's no way I'm...
Many scams have slipped quietly into the realm of the 'new normal.' Take, for instance, the mystical 'free trial' that requires your credit card details, only to morph into an uninvited monthly guest on your bank statement.Product...
And let's not forget the landlords, who apparently have turned into neck-breathing dragons when the rent's overdue. And somehow you are the solution of all these morasses. My wallet has become a superhero of sorts to save the day of a...
It's like a never-ending episode of a cooking show where the secret ingredient is always chaos. One minute you're learning how to budget like a minimalist, and the next, you're deep in the philosophical trenches, pondering how Ratsie...
Imagine the drama, the intrigue and the family members popping out of the woodwork claiming their six degrees of separation to the State House! "Oh yes, I stayed in the State house bedroom for a night in 2002, where's my paycheck?" But in...
Whenever something like this happens the hip and happy take to social media to argue with social media citizens or simply to gloat about the achievement. So half the local population migrated to social media to let the world know that their country...
The first episode usually involves the Neighbours’ Noise Level Assessment: A critical period where you determine if you've moved next to a silent film enthusiast or an aspiring drummer with a love for the night shift. You ponder the merits of...
Winter is synonymous with beans, warm clothing, indoors, defaulting on gym subscriptions and fatter people. Let me make a disclaimer here that fatter people refers to men and in the case of women let us just say they get big-boned or fuller-figured....
On International Nurses Day, we tip our hats to these compassionate warriors who wield thermometers like swords and bandages like shields. They are the vigilant sentinels at the gates of recovery, the ones who listen to our grumbles with saintly...
Back then they’d measure your height and bunch you together with boys of a similar height. I was actually very short – which means I was vertically challenged in modern politically-correct parlance – and I was usually bunched with boys 3 years...
Winter is synonymous with beans, warm clothing, indoors, defaulting on gym subscriptions and fatter people. Let me make a disclaimer here that fatter people refers to men and in the case of women let us just say they get big-boned or fuller-figured....
This was an answer to the call to local governments to come up with new avenues of revenue collection. So the smart Gaborone City (GC) civic leaders decided that dogs should pay tax.They beat a hasty retreat when GC residents picketed against this....
While this would seem a low-level ambition it was a reality which most of us aspired for.I told this to my kids the other day and they tongue-in-cheek told me such ambitions should be buried deep in the archives of regrettable aspirations. But they...
You can wake up at 3am and get into a queue and get queuing card number 237.This means you have to make a call to your family to bring blankets as you will probably get to see the doctor (if there’s any) after a few days. So this means if you are...
They always walked out of these chicken outlets with that little box with a few bones and a few crusted chips.The reason for this was to tongue-in-cheek say, ‘I can afford this scrumptious chicken and you cannot’. So this divided the town into...
I earned my spot on the judges table after passing through a strict screening procedure that had two questions.1. Have you stayed in GC? 2. Do you have a dinner belt?The answer to these questions was 'Yes' and I was in. In case you are...
The smarter reader would have deduced that my occupation is a hustler, which is street speak for 'unemployed'. So in my world, anyone who gets a salary with allowances like housing allowance, phone allowance and strange allowances like...
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