Andrew Sesinyi

Andrew Sesinyi (born September 7, 1952) is the Motswana author of Love on the Rocks (1981). He also worked in the media administration of Botswana.

Quotes

• The Olympics proved to be a huge public relations exercise. Olympics don’t sell as football. It meant taking austerity measures.
• You could pay staff for a month and go for three months without pay. I cut the entitlements of the SG. The position attracted huge benefits. I postponed plans to purchase a new Mercedes for the SG, removed the travelling from first class to business class and moved out of a mansion to an apartment whose rental was one fifth of what the mansion cost.
• You needed a different person to implement the scheme.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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,
  • Free the airwaves, Sunday Standard(14 April 2011)
• 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.
  • Sesinyi embarks on 'serious writing, Mmegi '(28 February 2007)