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Examples
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In other words, is there any need for our leaders in government, in business and in civil society to espouse positive and strong social consciousness and responsibility, what in our parlance we call botho or ubuntu?
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They think the goal is to do anything to get it, forsaking ubuntu botho is Setswana and other important cultural values.
Will the World Take Home Ubuntu from South Africa? Lauri 2010
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Re sebedisa monyetla ona hore re lekole hore na ebe ho na le dibanka tseo re di entseng ha re lema, ebang di le teng re shebisisane jwalo ka botho ba letsema ho re na re lokisa jwang.
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The vandalising of substations deprived innocent citizens of electricity and was an act against ubuntu/botho (humanity), he said.
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Le lehono, re sa ikemediseditse go latela ditletlebo tseo, (principles), ebile re tla tswela pele go tiisa, megatlo ye sepelago le rena (strengthening progreesive networks), lefase ka moka go fihlela re bona tekano, le thlompho ya botho lefaseng, (that is, emergence of an equitable and human world order).
Speech by Obed Bapela on the State of the Nation Address Debate 2007
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One of our continuing and important tasks is further to strive to promote the campaign for moral regeneration, based on doing everything we can to develop a value system in our country inspired by the concepts that are integral to the ubuntu/botho world outlook.
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It is up to us to bring botho le hlompho (humanism and respect) in every household, in every classroom, in every boardroom, in every playground, in every farm, in every police station, as we find and express ourselves as a nation.
ANC Today 2007
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It is up to us to bring botho le hlompho (humanism and respect) in every household, in every classroom, in every boardroom, in every playground, in every farm, in every police station, as we find and express ourselves as a nation.
ANC Today 2007
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Mo moletlong le mo tshepidisong ya yona, mogatlo wa ANC, o ile wa ithuta ebile wa tsenya letsogo mo morerong wa tshebedisano ya botho (human solidarity) lefaseng ka bophara.
Speech by Obed Bapela on the State of the Nation Address Debate 2007
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Di etsa hore botho ba ANC bo be peeletso mabapi le bao ba batlang ho iketsetsa diprofiti ka ho hwebisana le mmuso.
bilby commented on the word botho
"An untidy yard was the sign of a woman who no longer bothered with the traditional Botswana virtues and such people were almost always unreliable or rude. The had no idea of botho, which meant respect or good manners. Botho set Botswana apart from other places; it was what made it a special place. There were people who mocked it, of course, but what precisely did they want instead? Did they want people to be selfish? Did they want them to treat others unkindly? Because if you forgot about botho, then that was surely what would happen; Mma Ramotswe was sure of that."
- 'The Full Cupboard of Life', Alexander McCall Smith.
March 18, 2008