BOTSWANA SHOULD ALSO BAN MUSIC

Cappello restaurant at the Masa Square ( Gaborone CBD) was the place to be this past weekend if you wanted to catch vibes – and the Delta strain of Covid- 19. Thankfully, those who caught Delta are now bed- ridden and learning a lesson they will never forget for the rest of their lives. But who is to blame for what happened? The Botswana government of course! A couple of weeks ago, this column suggested that the government should open talks with the Taliban – which has just banned music because it is haram, meaning unholy.

One of the videos from Cappello shows tens of thousands of jam- packed and maskless revellers singing along to the reproductive- organ insult used as chorus in a popular Setswana song called Tinto. They had gone to Cappello for the music because they could simply have bought the alcohol and drank at home.

Not long ago, a rapper used the same reproductive- organ insult in a musicalised tirade against the government. Benchmarking with the Taliban would have been fruitful in this particular regard but the government chose to ignore our advice.

You may not agree but the Taliban has a valid point about the haram- ness of music and those associated with music.

Via Hotspot, a female African- American rapper called Foxy Brown has snitched to the world about the extent to which MCs ( DJs) in the music industry practise cannibalism. ‘ MCs wanna eat me but it’s Ramadan,’ Miss Brown reveals in the song.