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The current sad events in the music industry, require serious introspect into the reward chain of the Music Industry in Botswana. I have been observing with a keen eye over the past 10 years how the government has a huge expectation from an industry they don't care for or which they are investing little of their energy and resources in.How the government continuously want musicians to volunteer their services in national events for free when their welfare issues are not taken care of leaves a lot to be desired. How are musicians expected to perform for free when they have families to feed? How are musicians expected to perform for free when the same people who want them to do that get paid salaries at the end of the month?
It is a well-known fact that besides the President's Heritage Awards or President's Constituency Arts competition there is nothing the government can point and say it is a significant investment into the music industry or a programme to alleviate poverty amongst musicians, musicians continue to die poor every month.
A lot of musicians who have informally interacted with President Ian Khama always tell us that he has an interest in the Arts, but he is helpless because those who are supposed to support him are slacking, I believe them because of the current developments and their experience with the president from the army. It is a fact the future of the Arts lies in his hands or government. I am not writing this article to praise H E because I am not a poet. I am merely crediting and acknowledging his good contribution.
If he was not doing anything good I would constructively engage him, so credit must be given where it is due. I know I will be called a bootlicker but I don't care because I am not a politician, I have nothing to benefit from politics, the numbers of musicians that enter for these competitions are there to justify my observation about their success and interest from musicians.
Moving on, I am not a great fan and greatly disturbed of the current environment where the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture has a budget for Arts development less than P5 million annually, while for Youth and Sports over P200 million is spent every year. There is mushrooming and construction of stadia, high performance centres, youth centres, open spaces countrywide and what about theatres, performance arenas etc. As musicians we are forced to perform in bars and bus ranks as a result of having been kicked out of using school and community halls recently by Ministry of Education and Councils countywide. There is also a problem with lack of outdoor music concert facilities in Botswana, to book a stadium for a music concert you can receive a quote of close to P100 000 it is a fact not fallacy. By government kicking out musicians from using school and community halls on the other hand allowing Nigerian Churches to use these facilities leaves a lot to talk about in this country.
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