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"The Olympics proved to be a huge public relations exercise. Olympics don’t sell as football. It meant taking austerity measures."
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Andrew Sesinyi"You needed a different person to implement the scheme."
"The Olympics proved to be a huge public relations exercise. Olympics don’t sell as football. It meant taking austerity measures."
"The best broadcaster still alive is my neighbour Batho Molema. He has absolutely no idea how I hold him in high esteem. Molema is a successful man in his own right. He was a pioneer."
"When I ran the Round Table show there was no interference on my show. As the former director I never experienced any interference from anyone although I was called a puppet. Everyone called me the chief censor of news. I didn’t blame them because I was 100 percent owned by the government,"
"I am not in a hurry to publish, but I have already written some 400 pages of non fiction. It is not a kiss and tell story, but it is about my experiences in life as a journalist, as I traveled around the world. It will take time to finish it because it is research-based, which is quite demanding."
"It is about my vast experiences, my out look on African politics such as in Senegal, where I once worked. As a journalist, I would also air my views about journalism in Botswana, its growth, especially the private media. If you travel around the world you experience situations, it would be about what I was exposed to, the events I watched. The book will have a lot of issues on politics, the economy, even on cattle."
"We have for example the SABC which has less stigma than ourselves but it is government controlled. We are at a stage where we should also know that the public is fairly sophisticated and so unless we project a more transparent image of both radio and television, news that come out of these media will always be regarded as propaganda."