I am not the kind of person who will shut up when i feel so strongly about something. I will not follow a crowd just to be liked. I do not get intimidated when everyone else is on the opposite side and i am stood on my own. I will never ever be afraid to speak what i believe is the truth so God help me. People either like me or they dont, i respect their right to choose. I have lost friends and fans because dome people are just not ready to confront certain issues and would rather have me as someone who just agrees with them. If thats what it takes to get support then i do not want it. I learn from everyone and know that i can learn more from being silent. I will not oppose for the sake of opposing. I respect all people until they prove they are not worthy of it. Everyone is entitled to have an opinion of who i am, the one that matters to me is my own opinion of who i am. I do not belong to any religious group but i believe in God and live my life to serve God even if means putting myself out to be abused. My 87 years old grandma will tell you this is the person i have always been. I am no angel and like everyone else i am sometimes wrong. But i am right this time. I am so damn right about this. You can not abuse Basarwa all these years and continue to do so, call Bakalaka Manoko, call Zimbabweans makwerekwere, Bakgalagadi makgalagatsana and then suddenly think you are so much better than Nonhle Thema and decide you are going to make an example of her. I am not defending her. She may well have been wrong but Botswana is no better when it comes to verbal abuse and derogatory labelling of people. THATS A FACT. Nonhle just gave us a little and very little taste of our own medicine. I once met a motswana lady in the Uk. She had come to my house for a visit with her 2 years old daughter. We then had a conversation about racist experiences in the UK, meanwhile her daughter like any toddler, was busy exploring my house and making a mess. The lady shouts at her heeela tlhe, tota ha o behaviour jaaka makgaladadi jaana go a bo go rileng i ask her how Makgaladadi as she called us behave, she answered hee mma batho bao ke diphologolo Not knowing i belong to that tribe. And these is the abuse we grew up in Botswana and it still goes on now. So it is incredibly rich that the whole country has now blown the Nonhle story out of proportion. I LOVE BOTSWANA SO BLOODY MUCH , and given a chance to choose i would still choose to be from Botswana, but i grew up seeing even disabled people and mentally ill people abused and laughed at. We need to sort out our own problems before we point a finger at outsiders. While punishing Nonhle please remember to make the likes of Botsalo Ntuane accountable for suggesting teaching other Botswana languages in schools would be an insult to Sir Seretse Khama. It was also an insult to the minority tribes. Mmampodi ga a ipone se se mo tlhogong.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:50:26 +0000
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