Tebogo is flying: who will be his companion?
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In full flight: Tebogo PIC: CNN
Botswana’s more than a decade-long sparkling period on the track can be traced back to one of the country’s finest moments at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea in 2011.
Although there had been near-misses before then, notably Glody Dube reaching the finals of the 800m in Sidney in 2000, the wheels of success only started to turn convincingly 11 years later.
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...