Editorials

Kgosi Chronicles Part 3: Monngammu without mmu

In this column I comment on the change to the power of bogosi. Centrally I argue that the powers of the kgosi have been...

Judicial crisis: A test of how far we have deteriorated as a country?

Sometime last week I struggled with sleep. This was not the first time in as many days that worry had come to take control...

How are we doing in relation to attaining Vision 2016 goals?

With a few months left before the dawn of 2016, there is a pertinent question that we must unashamedly be asking ourselves as a...

Restoring dignity and integrity of Office of the President should precede any efforts at national revival

Our country has progressively degenerated into a theatre of madness. We are a broken people living in a broken country that has stumbled from one...

Are Africans Inherently More Corrupt than other people? Professor H K Prempeh Asks!!!

Many of us think we know what corruption is or looks like; such as for instance, a cabinet minister digging his dirty fingers in...

What has happened to money from the alcohol Levy?

It is now almost eight years since Botswana government decided to introduce the Alcohol Levy.That time is long enough to allow for a detailed...

Just as BTV took BDP up, the station is now taking the party down!

Botswana Television, a national institution that promised so much when it was launched, has tragically been allowed to slide into an embodiment of all...

Why do people speak all manner of good things and grieve when a bad person dies?

A several century-long standard practice and rule of thumb is that, of the dead say nothing unless it is kind or do not speak...

Zero marks to the judiciary

Over the past decade it has been absolutely necessary for this  column to defend and take sides with the judiciary.During that time, we deemed...

Why did we change a system that was working for us?

In my past instalments, I deliberately avoided dealing with current pressing water and electricity crisis with the hope that those in charge of our...