Opinions
Electoral reforms can wait until sanity comes back
The increasing fascination with Proportional Representation by opposition political parties should be looked at more as a strategy for survival than a genuine concern...
Goodbye communism, hello money!
I have a New Year resolution. I have decided to make it big. This is the year. Yep, the year to make so much...
Things fall apart for BNF
The incessant struggles within the Botswana National Front, as witnessed by the current quagmire over the Gaborone mayoral elections and the bare knuckled fights...
Peacekeepers as predators: UN sex crimes
It reads like a runaway bestseller of Hollywood fiction or, more realistically, a Nuremberg dossier: crimes against humanity.
“He shot pornographic videos in his home,...
Government should not feel humiliated over the CKGR
It is very important that a long lasting settlement is reached between Basarwa of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and Government.
Such a settlement is...
Comrades, you are warned!Comrades, you are warned!
For a small country, this place is doing quite nicely. Some locals may well be surprised to learn that they live in a small...
The reshuffle has outflanked both the opposition and BDP factionalists
I had resolved not to go back to the theme of cabinet reshuffle anytime in the near future.
One had imagined the recent reports of...
Is the death penalty really effective?
Thanks to Saddam Hussein, I no longer have any strong inclination towards the death penalty. It comes across as a hellishly sad and downright...
Moupo: betrayed or simply a turncoat?
It is the day of the launching of a Council candidate in Old Naledi, a ward of the downtrodden of Gaborone. Moupo, who has...
GOPs and GONGOs: Conspiracy against democracy
This commentary adopts the standpoint that one of the tragic aberrations afflicting Botswana, which might eventually contribute to its decline, is that our fatigued...
