13 Oct 2015

Tharientsho Storytellers is geared towards promoting culture, according to its founder Bontekanye Botumile (45). Botumile has a passion to preserve and celebrate Botswana’s rich culture.

She does this through writing books, performing arts, food, songs, folktales and other aspects that make up culture.

In an interview recently, Botumile said she registered Tharientsho in 2005 after realising that Batswana were losing their roots to modernisation. She said she decided to take up the responsibility of saving Botswana’s culture by setting up the enterprise.

Botumile said when she got one of her first jobs, she was in Shorobe where they were training youth to take up responsibility in their then newly formed Shorobe Tebelopele Community Trust. 

She said her job gave her ideas that she could train the youth to instill the sense of preserving culture.

Botumile has written four books; Tlou the elephant story, Patterns in the Sky, The Seed Children and The Two Kingdoms.

She further said she had written a comic book called River Cousins and all her books explained the culture that Batswana upheld and showed their real lives, the challenges they faced as well as how children were groomed to become responsible parents.

The author explained that Tharientsho was where it was because of patience and perseverance. 

She explained that she recruited unemployed youth in her projects and always made sure that she equipped them with necessary skills and helped them find jobs. Botumile explained that her enterprise was also aiming at helping. Ends