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KUDUMATSE Sven Andrighetto Avalanche Jersey , Botswana, May 14 (Xinhua) -- A culture tour hosted by China's Confucius Institute at the University of Botswana (CIUB) in the country's rural area received positive feedback.
CIUB on Tuesday presented Chinese activities to Dikgatlho Junior Secondary School in the village of Kudumatse in eastern Botswana, which marked the third stop of CIUB's week-long tour to rural villages.
Initiated in 2013, the tour is designed to introduce Chinese language and culture to the children in rural areas, and also to introduce the local students to China and the world outside.
The culture tour is an event where students can learn a lot, acting permanent secretary of the Ministry of Education and Skills Development Ndondo Koolese told Xinhua after the half-day event.
Koolese said Botswana people meet Chinese around but know very little about Chinese culture, adding that the programs are extremely rich in terms of culture exchanges and benefiting of students.
According to Chinese Ambassador to Botswana Zheng Zhuqiang, the culture tour in Botswana is a very successful and meaningful event. The tour has proved to be an important part of promoting Chinese culture and strengthening mutual understanding between the people of China and Botswana.
During the event, the Chinese embassy also donated books and footballs.
Acting dean of Faculty of Humanities in the University of Botswana Peter Sebina said during the event as the world is becoming smaller, students need to learn cultures and languages that will enable them to benefit and harness what other countries have to offer this country.
He said he is optimistic that efforts of CIUB will attract students to learn Chinese and its culture.
Head of the school J.O. Bartlett also said she is overwhelmed by the performance.
In Dikgatlho, the CIUB team presented various kinds of culture performance like Chinese Martial Arts and Taichi, Peking Opera, Yangko dance, sword dance and fashion show.
More than 600 students joined activities of Chinese class, Chinese song, paper-cutting, Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese traditional games and chopstick competition with CIUB.
15-year-old student Ndinah Kawamanoka said the activities are valuable and she learns Chinese culture and language. Katlego Ditsele, 15, said it's her first time to see this kind of activities which helps her to know the culture of foreign countries.
CIUB began its Chinese culture tour in the border village of Mabule, located about 260 km southwest of the capital city of Gaborone.
It will visit Maitengwe and Mapoka in the northeast bordering Zimbabwe in the following days.
Confucius Institute is a nonprofit public institution which aims to promote Chinese language and culture abroad.
by Raimundo Urrechaga
HAVANA, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of Cubans gathered in neighborhood assemblies which began on Monday night to nominate candidates for local and regional representatives, marking the first step toward the eventual election of a successor to top leader Raul Castro.
In this first stage, which will run until Sept. 30, two or more candidates for "delegates" will be nominated in the more than 12,000 districts of the country according to their merits, prestige and ability to contribute to the communities.
In one of Old Havana's most popular neighborhoods, about 200 people met in a street adorned with Cuban flags and a banner with a picture of late leader, Fidel Castro, to nominate the candidates who will best represent them over the next two and a half years.
"The most important thing this process has is that as neighbors we propose our candidates. We nominate those who care about the problems of the population and the community," Gladys Marce, one of the participants in the nomination assembly, told Xinhua.
On this first night, an assembly was held in each of the country's 168 municipalities, while during the next three weeks more than 45,000 neighborhood meetings will take place to nominate candidates for local representatives.
"I owe myself to the voters; I always try to solve our neighborhood's problems and deal with State entities to find a solution to the issues of those whom I represent," Nereyda Soto, a current district delegate, told Xinhua.
Soto, who was also nominated for a possible fourth term, said these assemblies mean a "genuine exercise of true democracy" because anyone can nominate a neighbor regardless of their political ideas.
According to the Cuban Electoral Law, any citizen can be nominated for a delegate. He or she doesn't have to be with a political organization or the ruling Communist Party.
"People are nominated here because of their merits and social trajectory. The voters decide who will represent them to better solve the main local problems," said Soto, who is 76 years old.
Elections for delegates to municipal and provincial assemblies will take place on Oct. 22. The process will conclude in February when the new members of parliament will elect the nation's top leader.
A total of 338,900 young Cubans older than 16 years will vote for the first time.
Many young people will participate in verifying these assemblies to prevent frauds.
The island's youth is having a leading and decisive role in these elections to "ensure" continuity of the political process started in 1959, 20-year-old university student Gerardo Puentes told Xinhua.
"We'll take over the nation in the short term to continue what has been done so far and improve it," he said.
The Oct. 22 election will be the first in a series of votes for local, provincial and national officials.
The National Assembly is expected to pick the president and members of the Council of State in February, when Raul Castro is expected to step down.
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