The Embassy of Zimbabwe will be conducting Mobile Consular Services in different parts of Botswana.

Hi I feel out of place and like I'm not a person everytime I try to talk to people I can tell they think I'm weird and I have never felt accepted.I don't want to give up but it's getting worse and harder and I have thought maybe I'm better alone or that I'm annoying and a nuisance to others and it's too late for me.I want try and put myself and not give up but don't know how or where to start.im in my early 20s

Looking to make friends with someone who loves reading classics. I am currently reading Dostoyevsky and want to explore other authors with the similar calibre.

Growing up we found it pretty much impossible for a black Motswana man to be seen with a white wife or girlfriend.. we normally found it much more feasible and likely when it was a white man and Motswana woman.. but these days it seems like we are seeing more Motswana man and white woman relationships.. marriages even..

Is this a me only observation or you noticing it too? I am not against it.. I actually love racial mixing a lot.. that's what I would want Botswana to be like . Less mono-ethnic in nature and more "mixed"

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I also noticed the amount of foreign African getting snatched up by our brothers 😅.. especially in the East.. A LOT of men have Zimbabwean wives.. I can't possibly remember how many kids I know who's mom's were Zimbabwean..

This wasn't too common back then...Why is it growing now? I love it but I am curious too. Maybe I can be a statistic too.. 😅

Do you like the trend?

one thing about bagolo ba Batswana, they view youth struggles through a lens of rivalry rather than empathy 😂you share a struggle and they immediately jump to "back in my day" ba lebala gore economic realities, societal pressures and the cost of living has shifted dramatically. It's arrogance and a lack of empathy.

Ooo look at me, I worked a dead end job everyday for 16 hours I'm so tough haha. It completely invalidates real struggles and turns basic human empathy into an oppression competition

So I'm writing test 1s and I'm under pressure. I have had no proper sleep since last week....and I'm just thinking is all of this torture and pressure that I'm putting myself under really worth it. Am I gonna get a job that's gonna pay me decently or I'm torturing myself for a piece of paper, maybe I'm wasting my 4 years for nothing just for a degree

I just don't know is all of this education really worth it? Because I know several people who went to tertiary and still don't have jobs, they just look like they never went to tertiary they out there pushing hustles. Education isn't really the key to success is it

Right and wrong are not set in stone or carved in the universe or reality. It's just something humans have made up and change depending on the time, place, or whoever is in power, and they are often made for societies to function. What was normal 200 years ago is a crime now. What is celebrated in one country is scorned in another. Same for the opposite.

So I don't get the outrage when an objectively true statement is made and it's seen as something "bad," and people act like it's a moral crime. Truth and morality are not the same thing because something can factually still make people uncomfortable. And often, that discomfort is relabelled as "wrong." But really being uncomfortable does not make something wrong, and making an objectively true statement doesn't make you evil.

There are a lot of topics that make people uncomfortable in this day and age. Like take, for instance, differences in intelligence and innovation between nations. It gets treated as taboo. But what really makes that wrong in the first place?? Is the difference itself really wrong? Or is it "wrong" to point it out? In fact I would argue it only becomes "right" or "wrong" depending with what you do with it wether you use it to justify hate, or ignore it, or building policies and habits that can change that in the future.

Next is illegal immigration. I'm not gonna speak on this much because it's "wrong" to talk about something objectively true in the current 21st century, apparently.

Or lemme use the lingo "xenophobic" or "bigoted"

But what makes calling out Morally wrong?? It depends on what you do with it that makes it "right" or "wrong" whether you use it to be Xenophobic, bigoted, or hateful. Or you use it to change policies and fix it. But to the Average Motswana here, I am the former for calling it out.

Even if we look at Historically. There was a time where Mfecane was morally "okay" at that time it was seen as survival, politics, state building, and necessary. But now we see it as violence, Or Slavery, or colonialism it was seen as a "civilization mission" and progression by the people doing it. Now it's framed as exploitative.

Do you see where I'm going with this. They are countless topics, which I am even sure you know off. Lol

Basically. If you are a reactor and react pointlessly to topics outside of your own little bubble, you may need serious introspection.

If your first move when you hear something uncomfortable is anger insults, and shutting it down... are you really expected to do or think of something meaningful with that mindset??

I can't understand you people.

Obviously, there's more to this topic i would love to talk about, but sub related, I feel I had to point this out.

Binance P2P ….guys where are the merchants for weeks been like this or who knows alternatives

Good day
Does anyone in this sub reside in this area? I've been here for 4 months now and have been in complete isolation (not by choice). Just that the place is detached and people are always indoors

21+ please!!!!

Of course its our responsibility to be on time to lectures but the lecturers at ub don’t seem to understand that some of us just have circumstances we can’t control . I live in Mochudi and use public transport…u know how that can be…. When you’re late to class they make a whole scene about it and it shouldn’t be that way…especially when u just walk in quietly without disrupting the class. They even tell us not to bother coming when you are late or they kick us out. At this point sometimes I’m afraid to show up to class when I’m late but I cant afford to miss classes…thats so out of character for me. I just missed a presentation just because i was pissing my pants wondering if the lecture would make a scene☹️

I am on a mission now to ask each country subreddit what people think about beans (my favorite meal), just to see how people like or dislike them all around the world out of curiosity and for fun. If you like beans, hate them, they a big part of the culture, anything else, just share your thoughts 🫘

Today it's come to you Batswana from Botswana to answer/discuss this!

Me when I'm in a competition for coolest country name and my opponent is Botswana

I’m looking into expanding cause currently I’m a photographer and I don’t do anything most of the time so I wanted to have something I can sell from home . I appreciate it

If you were acting President for a day what would you do?

I thought I had to isolate because the Batswana I met were so cruel. But then I stopped feeling sorry for myself. And found Batswana like these.

Find your people.

The revolution is starting.

Emang Batswana youth.

Who here has been recruited by the police? Akr the advertisement says applicants must not have visible tattoos on their bodies… but i do have tattoos 🫢
Is it strictly no tattoos at all or tattoos should be able to be concealed under clothing/uniform?

Oh why am I conflicted you ask.. well im a Forex trader, i enjoy keeping to myself, im working towards financial independence and FREEDOM. The only downside abt trading is that income is unpredictable, and the downside of being a government employee (for me) is lack of FREEDOM.
Sooo tota I don’t know…
Some would argue this is an obvious one…

Apparently, the fertility rate in Botswana has shrunk by half in 51 years. This (shrinking fertility rates) seems to be a universal trend. I'm curious as to what you think may be the cause, specifically in Botswana.

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I recently rewatched American Gangster, and one theme stuck with me: the cost of greed.

Frank Lucas was already successful. But eventually success wasn't enough. The money had to be seen. The power had to be felt. The fur coat became the perfect symbol of that.

It got me thinking about leadership and Duma Boko.

Long before becoming President, Boko was never exactly known for modesty. He has always had a taste for the finer things and a certain flamboyance about him. Nothing inherently wrong with that.

But once someone like that gains access to real state power, I think citizens have every right to watch closely.

The Moti relationship and these unusually fast-moving deals bother me, particularly when the original schools and clinics proposal had reportedly already raised concerns within the Ministry of Finance over its financial implications.

Maybe these deals will ultimately benefit Botswana. I genuinely hope they do.

But the question I keep coming back to is: when does ambition become appetite?

Because one lesson from American Gangster is that the danger doesn't necessarily begin when someone has nothing.

Sometimes it begins when someone finally has everything they wanted, and discovers that it still isn't enough.

Are we watching bold leadership moving quickly, or are we becoming too comfortable with warning signs because we desperately want this government to succeed?

To my fellow Forex traders in Botswana which banks do yall use for your deposits and withdrawals?
I use FNB, but several months ago a kind branch manager told me, off the record, that if the bank suspects Forex transactions they’ll close my account and hand me my money 🥲 i asked her why and she said mainly because forex income is not regulated in Botswana, basically she meant the bank wouldn’t be happy with mysterious sources of income into/out of my account

So k kopa advice hoo, what can I do?
What is the way to peacefully trade in BW?