When then Debswana Diamond Company Managing Director, Balisi Bonyongo, officiated at the 2018 University of Botswana Foundation Dinner Dance, he parsed unproductive and all-too-common use of the word of ‘challenge’ to downplay the seriousness of problems that confront the nation.
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