When Moabi Keaikitse died, many who knew him spoke quietly about an unassuming young man who rarely sought the spotlight. Yet in the days that followed, his passing ignited a national conversation far louder than anything he might have imagined, one centered on dignity at work and the hidden toll of bullying.
Across Botswana, social media feeds filled with tributes, personal testimonies and calls for change. Strangers shared stories of silent struggles in offices, turning grief into a collective moment of reckoning. In death, Keaikitse became a symbol, not of activism in life, but of the urgent need to confront workplace cruelty.
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