Why?

Questions for Daddy and Mommy

When I was growing up:

Why didn’t you take me for a tour of the Jwaneng Mine? The richest diamond mine in the world! Why?

Why did you guys not find it necessary to tour the Okavango Delta with me? The Makgadikgadi Pans? The Chobe National Park? The apparantely stunning Tsodilo Hills?

Why didn’t you take me to admire the legendary petroglyphs of Matsieng Footprints?

Okay, you claim you couldn’t afford to? Fine. So, in that case, I mean you even failed to take me to the Mmakgodumo Dam? To the Gorge? Atleast I remember Uncle Thinaboy, with binoculars hanging around his neck, driving us to the Gorge.

You never took me up the historic Kgwakgwe Hill, why? Even ko Kgosing, you did not take me! Atleast I went, with my classmates and teacher, to see President Masire addressing the morafe.

How can you even fail to simply tell me that there is another Ntsweng in Molepolole!

I do understand why: Blessing,

Blessing