By Lawrence Ookeditse

It was always a matter of time before the limitations of a UDC and BPF romance were exposed.

Consorting with Botswana Patriotic Front has for UDC been a strategic and even fatal mistake.

By Cde Nikolai Olebeng*

By Richard Moleofe

The recent killings that have taken place in South Africa in the past weeks call for a thorough examination of the problem from a security point of

view. There is more than one reason why this violence is happening and there is likely a group behind the scenes that has given fuel to it.

The Botswana Democratic Party has undergone renewal from time to time occasioned by changes to its leadership. The first Leader of the Party was Sir Seretse Khama, followed by Sir Ketumile Masire, who was succeeded by HE Festus Gontebanye Mogae, and thereafter HE Lt General Seretse Khama Ian Khama.

History has markers every step of its way. It keeps records of its patient existence that grows by the second.

History is a truth that cannot be tempered with yet many have tried only to be shamed by its unmovable presence, if you care.

One of the greatest attributes about the late South African president and struggle icon, Nelson Mandela has been his ability to forgive.

Mandela believed in the infinite goodness of humanity and went at great lengths to honour that part of mankind.

After staying in jail for almost a generation he walked out preaching peace and reconciliation for his race-war ravaged country.

“It is better to starve in freedom than to have plenty in bondage”, Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe, founding President of the Pan 
Africanist Congress.

By Richard Moleofe

The polling date for the 2019 Botswana general election has been set and election campaigns have moved into top gear. Commentators and politicians are having a field day with some making sense and others making no sense but still making headlines.