Botswana
Botswana is traditionally seen as cattle country. Given sufficient water and pasture and controls on the spread of foot-and-mouth disease from wetland buffalo, it is a healthy environment for raising high-bulk, high-quality indigenous beef cattle.
In 2013, during the Tonota Agriculture Show, Elizabeth Selogelo and Motlalepula Raditshaba introduced a coffee tasting session for attendants. Feedback was that it is pleasant tasting and fresh coffee. They started with 4 hectares last year and from feedback at the show, they realised it could be good business. At that stage the market was small as people in surrounding areas were the only ones that purchased it.
Let’s hope they grew since then.
The official language of Botswana is English although Setswana is widely spoken across the country. In Setswana, prefixes are more important than they are in many other languages, since Setswana is a Bantu language and has noun classes denoted by these prefixes. They include Bo, which refers to the country, Ba, which refers to the people, Mo, which is one person, and Se which is the language. For example, the main ethnic group of Botswana is the Tswana people, hence the name Botswana for its country. The people as a whole are Batswana, one person is a Motswana, and the language they speak is Setswana.
Other languages spoken in Botswana is Kalanga (sekalanga), Sarwa (sesarwa), Ndebele, !Xóõ and, in some parts, Afrikaans.
Come and join us for a chat or a quick cuppa or even a take-away or a full breakfast. You don't need to spend anything, but if you do, it will be for your own account.
Date: Friday, 15 November 2019
Time: From 06h45 to 08h00
Place: Brioche, 181 Main Rd, Walmer
Looking forward to seeing you there!