Homosexuals etc.

I will be blunt. Someone who has vested interests in the moral breakdown of third world countries' populations is behind this homosexual, lesbian phenomenon. The phenomenon itself is one big conspiracy, a hoax that is anchored on our predictable revulsion and consequent impulsive reaction.

I remember reading, in a local newspaper, about a conversation between two ladies seated in a minibus. The gist of the conversation was that of the two "holes", only number one should be presented to a husband. If you present hole number two, the husband will be captivated by its tightness, and before you know it, he will be off to look for another man to sleep with. Presumably the reason he looks for a man and not a woman is because a woman might want to entice him back to hole number one - a boring, emotionless hole that he no longer wants to have anything to do with. I am not concerned with the merits or demerits of this conversation, but with the fact that some couples occassionally use BOTH holes.

Now how would we as a society react if some married couples came forward and "confessed" that they only use hole number one when they want to make a child, otherwise their hole of first recourse, is hole number two. I think our response would be "so what ?". And what if the couples' shocker was then delivered - "we want to register our  society of sexual orientation, we will call it HOLE TWO else ONE. We are doing this because society is descriminating against us."

I think you get the point. To parade bedroom matters in the street, in the name of pursuing sexual equality is at best hypocritical, and possibly conspiratorial. Last week I watched in horror as a young "twerker", wearing tight fitting "leggings", gyrated. She was standing with her legs apart . Her head was lower than her knees. The music was blaring  and she was gyrating; gyrating like she was flaunting her holes to an Anunnaki somewhere out on planet Nibiru. Fortunately  the camera was focussing on her from the back of her head, and not from the "interesting" side. In my view, she took her bedroom potential out on to the street. Is that really necessary?

Now contrast that with the reaction of new year revellers in a German town who were allegedly "groped" by people who looked like North Africans or Arabs!. These were revellers. None had her hole penetrated. Some might even have been accidentally bumped into by these "darkies". I am not condoning the behaviour of the "darkies". I'm only showing the contrast between a girl who does not feel insulted when strangers gawk at her gyrating bottom in the street, and a reveler who feels insulted and humiliated if a darkie gave her a pat of appreciation on the bottom.

"So why the homosexual and lesbian conspiracy?", you may ask. The intention is to create chaos and confusion in our societies; to cause us to impulsively react by passing laws that WE CANNOT ENFORCE, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO BE IN THE BEDROOM TO GET THE NECESSARY EVIDENCE FOR CONVICTION. As soon as the laws are passed, the conspirators have achieved their objective. The rest will be sorted out, if at all, between the impulsive legislators, and those who claim that their bedroom exploits are being legislated against. For crying out loud, we don't even know that the people who claim to be homosexuals and lesbians actually practice that in their bedrooms. Nor need we to know.

To call the conspirators's bluff, to expose the hoax, all we need to do is repeal any laws that we might have impulsively promulgated against this "imaginary" group, and steadfastly REFUSE to register their bedroom organisations in our statutes. That's my two pennies' worth.  

Devil's Advocate - 2019

Tsholetsa Domkrag!  When we ask for your votes, and you give us your votes to rule, we immediately start ruling; just as we have been doing for the last 50- something years. We do not, after getting your votes, start fighting (read negotiating) on how to rule you.

The UDC has been "negotiating" for the last ten years. But these negotiations have not been on HOW to rule you, should they win the elections; no, not at all. The negotiations on how to rule you will start when you have voted them into Government. In other words when they are supposed to be governing you, they will be starting serious negotiations on how (in heck) to do that - which party takes wich Ministry and which Parastatals. They can't agree on these issues BEFORE elections, because they don't know which of the cooperating parties will win in their allocated constituencies!

So you may want to know what exactly they have been negotiating on during the last ten years. They have been carving up the country like the Imperialists did to Africa from the comfort of their European sofas in or around 1885. Bane ba gopela lefatshe! You the voters were not consulted at all. You were only told at the end of ten years, which cooperating party you must vote for. And now they want you to believe that "carving up Government responsibilities" among themselves can be done in 3 or 4 days after elections? Ao, Bathong do these guys think you are idiots or what?

Yes, they have produced a joint manifesto under the UDC umbrella concept. Even though they call UDC a party, in reality it is just a concept because you can't join it. A joint manifesto is not a contract. Any of the cooperating parties can decide to pull out of the umbrella the day after the elections.

Ask yourselves - if they can produce a joint manifesto and REALLY mean what they have written in that manifesto, what then prevents them from UNITING their parties into ONE party with such manifesto as the guiding document? The answer is simple - The "joint manifesto" is just to fool you, the voters. Vote them in and they will tear the manifesto apart and resort to government ala-Palapye 1998 solution!

Paulson Majaga for Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) President

A trully earth-shattering political development recently occured in our parliament. Not surprisingly most of the mainstream "independent" news media either did not notice the political significance of the move, or being BDP at the core, feared possible repercussions on BDP's lack of accountability.

The leader of the opposition, Duma Boko was rightly critisizing President Khama's government for "approving" some P800 million without presenting it to parliament for debate and approval, or rejection! It boggles the mind how any responsible politician in Parliament can accept Khama's signature as the only necessary authority for such humongous expenditure, given the vast amounts of money that just disappear without trace (dwt) under Khama's government: P38 million (dwt) at Water Utilities Corporation; P38 million (dwt) at Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board; Several billions (dwt) at the Fenghue Glass factory in Palapye etc.

Fortunately, in the midst of the snoring majority BDP MPs there are still some who are willing to "take risks" in pursuit of their oath/vow to protect the interests of the motherland. They do not fear to take a firm stand against the dictates of their party leaders, where the interests of the country (their electorates) are being abused willy-nilly. The member of Parliament for Nata/Gweta, Paulson Majaga is such an MP. Despite him being a BDP MP, he backed the leader of Opposition in voicing his opposition to President Khama "authorising" close to a billion Pula without Parliament's approval. Such MPs are an invaluable asset to the national psyche. Their existence in our Parliament  gives us reason to hope that even with the continuous rigging that our elections are subject to, the government may one day fall through a vote of no confidence.

It is for this reason that in my view the BDP should seriously consider promoting the member of Parliament for Nata/Gweta, Paulson Majaga, to the position of Party President. Paulson Majaga as President would probably not be enough to save BDP from the chop at the next (hopefully, unrigged) elections, but his sense of accountability would be like a breeze of fresh air as compared to the current stifling BDP administration.  

Correction - "Tribes of the Kalanga nation"

In the post entitled "Tribes of the Kalanga nation" on Thursday 9 July 2015 I erred (lied?) when I wrote:

The Mokoba/Moyeyi controlled the human "traffic" with the help of a branch of a very prickley tree. The Tswana call the tree "Mokoba". In Kalanga, the tree is called "Nkosho", MEANING THAT IT SPENT THE DAY (KU SHWA) NEXT TO THE DOOR/MOYEYI(NKOBA)

The capitalized phrase above is what is wrong. The prickley tree is called Nkosho alright, and the word "Nkosho" breaks down to two parts as I stated "Nko" from Nkoba, and "Sho". But the "Sho" does not derive from (Ku shwa). The "Sho" means "Prickley", as in the words "ishosho" , meaning a prickley plant prevalent in the correspondingly named village "shoshong"; a scorpion is called "leSHOkgo" in Setswana language; the hedgehog is called "iSHOni" in Kalanga; and of course the good old "SHOndo" meaning "I prick :)!

Smartphoners, beware of lightning!

It looks like the rainy season has now begun. In addition to thanking God that the rains are finally knocking at our doorstep, we need to caution young people about their current trend of wearing what amounts to lightning-attracting gadgets on their ears - music ear phones!

A year or two ago, some kids from Naledi Senior Secondary School, while wearing those gadgets during a lightning storm, were struck by lightning.

Matsha Secondary School tragedy.

When tragedy on the scale of the Matsha Secondary School truck accident that killed seven of our kids strikes, the nation needs to come together, for the simple reason that it must never ever be allowed to happen again. Coming together means we need to find out what we did wrong, or the measures we failed to take, leading to the tragedy.

The trajedy needs to be taken away from the realm of politics - no amount of headbutts and/or fists will tell us what happenned. Only a Judicial commission of enquiry would tell us that. And this is where national magnanimity comes in - A e nne modiga, Be-Shashe. I will explain the "Be-Shashe" in a later post. For now please read it as "Batswana".

And so I call upon President Dr. Ian Khama and the Judicial Service Commission, to appoint attorney Omphemetse Motumise as judge on a temporary basis, to head a judicial inquiry into the Matsha School accident. I call upon Rre Motumise, as a lawyer of high integrity, familiar with the Kgalagadi terrain and people, to accept such an appointment. I call upon the people of this country to give all concerned, the latitude to make the judicial inquiry a success!

Big (language) lies in our country.

I am a lazy reader. Last week, while reading the WeekendPost newspaper (07 - 13 November) I scribbled on my subconcious that there was an article by Dr Cosmos Kebinang Moenga, with a curious heading "There is more to culture than singing and dancing", which article I had to remember to read. As so often happens, I forgot to read it and threw the paper on to the heap. Today for some unknown reason, I remembered the article; perhaps because I observed some drinkers rolling and floating to the sound of the noisy gumbagumba at a nearby shebeen.

And so I dug up Dr. Cosmos Kebinang Moenga's artcle and read it.  It is very enlightenning and I strongly recommend it.
When I reached the end, I remembered how I recently experienced the power of "Big Lies" told by "big" people (as related in Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'). You see, I never view anything written in Setswana language as possibly carrying any reading value, and so I never read anything  written in Setswana language, be it reports or opinion pieces. I must admit though, that my knowledge of Setswana is quite poor!

A few months ago, I bought a Wednesday edition of Mmegi (The Reporter) newspaper. As I paged through, I came accross an article written in Kalanga language, by Dr. Shandulani Buyani Vavani. I instinctively started reading it. I got so egrossed in reading this article, nothing could have swayed my attention whatsoever. By the time I finished reading the article, I felt in much lighter mood; but what then followed is what really shocked me. I found myself having read an entire article in Setswana language in the same paper, without even noticing that I was reading a Setswana article. It was just like the Setswana language article was a continuation of Dr. Vavani's humorous Kalanga article. Perhaps for the first time in my sixty-odd years I stood back and detached myself from what had just happenned to me, and attempted to understand it. I had unconciously sought value in a Setswana language piece, a language I consider oppressive of my native Kalanga; a language I severely despise! I had done that because Dr. Vavani's article, written in my language, had tripped a Setswana-barring switch implanted in my subconcious by the perception that Setswana language oppresses my native Kalanga language.

What had just happenned is proof if ever one were needed, that our Government's argument that allowing languages other than Setswana to be officially used would breed national disunity, is total nonsense. On the contrary, it would cement our nation together, because we would begin to appreciate the value in our fellow country men and women. In other words, we would be truly "free men and women". We would feel curious enough about other languages used in our country that we would become multilingual. A Kalanga like me, would want to converse with an old Naro woman or man, and the only way to do it would be to learn her/his language!

So, beware of Government "Biglies"! The reason why Seretse Khama banned Kalanga from being taught in schools was his inferiority complex as a Setswana speaker who was fully aware that the nation he was leading was a Kalanga nation, and that therefore the only way he could retain the privileged position thrust upon him by Imperialist Britain was to repress and assimilate the majority (Kalanga) into the minority (Tswana). He did it in grand style - by proclaiming that Kalangas are a tribe, and at the same time challenging them to tell him who their paramount chief should be. Imagine the cheek of it. He declares Kalangas a tribe, and instead of him identifying the "paramount chief" of said tribe, he demands that that "tribe" identify to him who their "traditional" paramount chief is!. The same warped argument is being advanced today by Setswana so-called "intellectuals". They now want Kalanga (and other) non-Setswana speakers to tell them how Government can best preserve the many languages spoken in our country! My answer to them is simple - the same way you have so far preserved the Setswana language. As a Kalanga I do not accept the crap about Setswana language being "the National language". Who made it a national language over and above Kalanga, when the Tswana speakers have always been a subset of Kalanga speakers? Seretse Khama never asked, nor did he receive any acceptance by Kalanga speakers that their language be banned from schools. He never conducted a referendum on such an important national question.

In my view, Kalangas should boycot the 50 year Independence anniversary celebrations next year, including the vision 2036 council,  until the teaching of Kalanga is RESTORED in our schools!