Although the rains came late this rainy season, animal pasture is not extremely bad, certainly not in the north of the country. Grazing animals can now afford to spend hours lying and resting in tree shades. Not so with Kalangas, especially the elderly.
The staple food of Kalanga people is Zengwe, a type of millet. I don't know if any other people in Botswana equaly depend on zengwe for their food, but what I do know is that in Kgatleng people grow it as chicken feed or something similar. To Kalanga's zengwe is like potatoes to the British. We Kalanga's can survive on zengwe without relish for weeks on end. It has all the basic nutrients our bodies need. Despite this, Botswana evidently does not consider zengwe to be a grain worth importing.
There has not been zengwe in the shops for several months now. If you visit the rural Kalanga neighbourhoods you will see, from the sunken eyes of the elderly, that something is badly amiss about their diet. They are being forced by circumstances to live on sorghum, a grain that is normally their first choice to feed the chickens with. No Kalanga person I know of, feeds chickens with zengwe.
And so some questions need to be asked - just how many "genuine" Kalangas are involved in the decision as to what grain to import to feed our people? Why does it become necessary to import yellow maize for animals, when our people (Kalanga's) are literally starving, and animal pasture is as green as emeralds?
The answers to the above questions are not very difficult to work out. They are all tied to the fake republic whose national goal is the total elimination of Kalanga's as a people. We are being conditioned, this time through food, that we are all "Tswana's" - a big lie!
First they banned our language from being taught in our schools; next they banned our language from being spoken BY OUR CHILDREN anywhere in our school premises; now they have eliminated our staple food from food worth importing. You get to wonder what they will do next.
