The Mail & Guardian needs your help
/ 26 March 2020

The Mail & Guardian needs your help

Our job is to help give you the information we all need to participate in building this country, while holding those in power to account. But now the power to help us keep doing that is in your hands

Educators: Watch your words – they can inspire or deflate
/ 6 March 2020

Educators: Watch your words – they can inspire or deflate

In matric my friends and I got into trouble and were called into the principal’s office to be reprimanded. I do not remember most of what the principal said during the tongue-lashing. But I do remember her saying: “You will not amount to anything in life.” A group of teenagers got into some silly mischief […]

Botswana’s media is in crisis
/ 29 January 2020

Botswana’s media is in crisis

COMMENT We live in a divided political environment and amid radical economic disparities. But there is one thing on which virtually everyone in Botswana agrees: most of the news and information we are fed is biased.  There are constant complaints about bias, from readers and politicians alike. These complaints are not groundless. As director of […]