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The following list of names is not necessarily based on the number of following on social media but on an overall impact on our small society. The list is in no particular order

“Ba bala dinama,” the president said in idiomatic Setswana (‘they count body parts’) that substantively means insulting someone by referring to their

11th February 2021 Francistown has over the years depreciated from a city that once oozed vibrancy, glitz and glamour to a ghost town.  Popularly known as the “Ghetto”, the second city has been cut into a sorry shadow of its former self. Despite a number of contemporary infrastructures in the city such as the famous Interchange junction “Spaghetti”, it is very clear that there is deprivation of developments in the city. This is rubber stamped by among others; poor internal roads rutted...

December 29, 2020 The debate over what makes an influencer has always divided opinion, no more so than in The Voice’s newsroom, where the conversation got pretty heated this week as we looked at the top 10 Batswana influencers of this year! Some of the most common methods of measuring an influencer are by social media following, content, and by an individual’s ability to spark and lead a debate. According to marketinghub.com “Influencers who may appear in a low category by one measure may...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 2020 Dec 23, 2020 We all know the year 2020 has been a unique and challenging year for many, if not all of us due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, conflict, brutality and abuses of power abounded and so too the coronavirus pandemic ran rampant. The pandemic has become a pervasive and chilling backdrop to man’s inhumanity to man – and a timely reminder of our own vulnerability on a planet teetering on the edge. This has been truly ...