SIR SERETSE KHAMA ON IDEOLOGY AND CULTURE At Dag Hammarskjold Centre in Sweden, November 1970: “We in Botswana have chosen to develop our own guiding principles and describe them in terms readily comprehensible to our people. And these principles, rooted in our culture and traditions are now being tested in practice…Although we have chosen to develop our own ideology, our nationalism and our non-alignment will not be permitted to degenerate in to narrow chauvinism and isolation. Rather we seek to identify ourselves with what is positive and humane in all national ideologies. We recognise certain fundamental values and hold them to be universal” In Francistown, April 1972, on the importance of Kagisanyo: “Kagisano should not merely be a slogan for our party, but an ideal for our nation. What are the roots of Kagisano? …It has always been our custom that members of a family should help each other face and overcome the problems of life. The well known proverb kgetse ya tsie e kginwa ka go tshwaraganelwa accurately sums up our approach to national policy and to life in general. What we are trying to do in the new Botswana is in fact nothing new. We are simply applying a well-established value, applied in the family, the ward and the tribe to the wider concept of nationhood.”
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