Dining by candlelight is not always a matter of choice, as Wame Molefhe discovers.
At a workshop I was attending, my attention kept being drawn to a member of my team from Zambia. After typing a few lines, she would glance up at the computer screen, make a few changes, then hit the save key. She would return to typing and then pause. Look up at the screen and then hit the save key.
‘Why do you keep doing that?’
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