Posted by Jola on August 18, 2007 in Botswana, Editor's Pick
I suspect that for many people reading this…Botswana is not the first place that comes to mind when you think about making a movie. I wanted to point out that the 1980 movie – The Gods Must be Crazy - was filmed in the country. More recently, the movie adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith’s book [...]
Teacher Gets US$400,000 to Establish ICT Centre in Ghana
A National Business plan competition and Entrepreneurship Development Programme, Believe Begin Become has awarded a 32 year old teacher of Damongo Secondary School (DASS), Prince Yakubu Tahiru an amount of US $400,000 to establish an ICT centre in Damongo, the West Gonja District capital of the Northern [...]
Gloria doesn’t hide her condition…she has AIDS. She discovered she is infected shortly after watching her mother died of the disease.
Gloria is a single-parent mother who earns paltry wages as an office cleaner in Nata, a Botswanian village of 5000 inhabitants. Botswana has the second highest HIV infection rate in Africa. The current [...]