Over forty years ago, Rhoda was on the back of a government truck trudging the loose soils of the Kgalagadi Desert, moving from villages and farms registering voters to participate in the country’s general elections. Rhoda, or Mmagwe Duma as many call her today, had left her young family in Mahalapye in the mid-1970s to try and eke a living in the capital town then.
One of the first jobs she got was being employed as a voter registration clerk.
“There were about 7 trucks that criss-crossed Botswana in a bid to register voters to participate in the general elections. I was in the small band that went around the out-skirts of Mahalapye and later we went all the way across Kgalagadi and up to the Ghanzi areas.”
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