All Quotes

"If the BDP wants to destroy itself it’s fine. I have no problem with that. But they should leave the country intact. The country is much bigger than any political parties."

"I believed what he told me and I still believe it today. Out of respect for him and his office and believing in what he told me, I do not see any need to take the matter any further from where it is."

"whatever we do as public officers must be done in the interest of the public."

"You must be able to distinguish errors of judgment and decisions taken in good faith and in this particular case by the president. I do not think he needed to explain anything to me but he did. He had no pressure to make a public announcement. But he did ÔÇôand for that ÔÇô I give him credit."

"BPF NEC puzzled by Reatile's UDC decision 8 April 2025"

"It makes me sad to see him making this kind of an announcement. As a Head of State, the President is a father of the nation and must never be put in a position that compromises his judgment. All those who advise him must put the interest of the nation first."

"An eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth makes all toothless and blind."

"It was fast. It happened quickly and I had to take cover before bouncing back."

"The president apologized to me. I wasn’t expecting it."

"I was taken by surprise when the president called me and informed me about it. He categorically told me that there were issues of conflict of interest concerning me before I became MP. He told me about the investigations but he did not tell me that I would be charged."

"I will not be active in politics for now."

"The assignment I am engaged in does not permit me to be in active politics, hence I have a taken a break from politics and will not be running in the coming general elections."

"People will always have opinions on how they experience you. I have never heard anyone on any set complain about me being a drama queen. Those who know me, know how I am. I don’t pay too much attention to negativity. Everyone experiences people differently"

"It is challenging because we are doing a lot of scenes every day and trying to make sure you are telling the story with great integrity and truth because you are telling someone's story and your story links to everyone else's character. You have a greater responsibility because everything needs to make sense. It starts with you"

"I thought I'm just an ordinary person but people see so much because we tell their stories in the most authentic way and that is why when they see me they get happy"

". I didn't think I would be able to put myself in someone else's shoes and change my perspective and look at life through someone else's lens."

"Tibone advocates for support to local companies 16 October 2018"

"Tibone calls for transformation of tourism sector 28 April 2024"

"Batswana are jealous - Tibone 2 December 2009"

"Botswana Energy Minister says Oil Forum Addresses Corruption 20 October 2009"

"MOATLHODI VOWS TO CLEAN UP DRUGS IN TONOTA 15 January 2024"

"Teachers’ Unions Slam Moatlhodi Over School Sports Boycott 6 March 2024"

"Unions govt collaboration critical 2 May 2024"

"MOATLHODI CALLS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY REGISTRATION 13 February 2024"

"Immigration Rot Not Easy To Fix, Says Mogami 7 July 2000"

"After all, they are only going into their own back garden."

"Two laboratories test FMD 7 November 2013"

"Molebatsi urges uptake of programmes 28 October 2024"

"Bright future for citrus farming in Botswana 11 May 2022"

"Regime Change Paranoia 21 April 2004"

"Botswana donates to flood victims 7 April 2011"

"Social scientists are interested in two broad themes or aspects of . The first is how any society functions as an age structure and how changing over time affect economic, political, and other aspects of social organization. The second is how attitudes and roles change over the life cycle of the individual or in cohorts of individuals."

"The of are rapidly changing, thereby altering the traditional relations between age groups. Some observers think ageism is increasing in the United States; others, that it is decreasing. In either case, stereotypes of old age are now changing with the rise of the young-old—that is, the age group 55 to 75, who constitute 15 percent of the population—who are relatively healthy, relatively affluent, relatively free from traditional responsibilities of work and family and who are increasingly well educated and politically active. This group will develop a variety of new needs with regard to meaningful use of time and for maximizing the opportunities for both self-enhancement and community participation. The young-old have enormous potential as agents of social change in creating an age-irrelevant society and in thus improving the relations between age groups."

"Age is an underlying dimension of social organization, for in all societies the relations between individuals and between groups are regulated by age difference. Thus far, however, little systematic attention has been paid by sociologists or social psychologists to the ways in which age groups relate to each other in modern complex societies, to age-grading, to relations between generations, of to systems of norms which govern ."

"Studies of human behavior in different societies have helped the social scientist understand the relations between culture and personality and have helped him shake free his hypotheses about human behavior from particular sets of cultural biases. These points are as important in studying middle age and aging as in studying child development."

"The terminal phase of the life cycle is receiving increased attention from social scientists. While this may be caused by the student interested in the sociology of knowledge, it is nevertheless striking that in the past few years there has been a sudden multiplication of studies of perceptions of time, finitude, attitudes toward death, and other psychological and sociological aspects of death and dying (an interest which is reflected also in the professional literature of physicians, psychiatrists, nurses, and s)."

"Pay ‘robbing’ DIS agents—Reatile 14 February 2024"

"Reatile credits BPF growth to resilience 1 September 2025"

"BPF launches manifesto candidates 6 October 2024"

"BPF has no arrangement with UDC outside Parley – Reatile 24 October 2025"

"Ookeditse advocates for safe abortions 25 May 2025"

"Every Pula Spent must Improve Health of All-Minister 17 February 2025"

"Prioritise Preventative Healthcare 4 December 2024"

"Botswana Pushes for Stronger Palliative Care Integration in National Health System 23 September 2025"

"Court Disputes Reflect Party Democracy – BPF SG 20 August 2024"

"I won't dismantle the BPF—Ookeditse 4 November 2025"

"It breaks my heart to challenge Reatile – Ookeditse 24 October 2025"

"‘I m in it to win it’ 12 November 2014"

"Kokorwe educates Mmadinare about Parliament 15 September 2015"

"Bots credit line stalled 29 January 2013"