Category: My Stories
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My Skin, My Story: How a Facial Burn Transformed My Understanding of Resilience
* Ntibinyane Ntibinyane Ten days ago, four days before Christmas day, my morning started like many others. I wanted to prepare breakfast for my kids—a simple magwinya (puff-puff) recipe, reminiscent of my childhood in Botswana, or something like savoury Timbits for those who need a Canadian comparison. But what should have been a delightful moment…
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Echoes of Botswana: Will Namibia’s elections redefine the region?
*Ntibinyane Ntibinyane Namibia’s upcoming elections have sparked a flurry of speculation. Just weeks after Botswana’s ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) was ousted from power after an unprecedented 58-year uninterrupted reign, many are asking whether a similar political earthquake could occur in Namibia For 34 years, the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) has dominated the…
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Why Botswana’s shift has Zimbabwe’s ZANU-PF on edge
*Ntibinyane Ntibinyane As the region and the continent at large continue to digest the outcome of the recent Botswana elections and their ramifications reverberate across borders, a bigger debate is unfolding on the changing political landscape of southern African. The debate is now more focused on the upcoming elections in neighbouring Namibia after the Botswana’s…
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Coronavirus may just be the end for many newspapers
The coronavirus story is big. From the perspective of news, the outbreak of the virus is one of the biggest stories in modern history. The virus has ravaged the world, infected millions of people and killed tens of thousands of people. It has divided opinions and in pursuit of strategy, it has pitted politicians against…
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How They Did It: Digging up Zimbabwe’s Gukurahundi Massacre Dossier
*Ntibinyane Ntibinyane It began with a tip-off from a former head of an international humanitarian organization who used to be based in Zimbabwe. There was an explosive dossier detailing heinous crimes of the Gukurahundi — a series of massacres of civilians carried out by the Zimbabwe National Army in the 1980s — and had been…
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Want to Change How Investigative Journalism is Done in Africa? Here are 14 Recommendations
*Ntibinyane Ntibinyane More than 10 years ago, the first non-profit investigative journalism in Africa was established. Following this development, more nonprofit investigative journalism organizations have been set up in more than 20 countries throughout the continent. And that number continues to grow. The question now is, what are the motivating factors behind the proliferation of…
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