Around the time that the constitutional review commission led by former Chief Justice Maruping Dibotelo was going around the country eliciting opinion on their vision for a new-look Botswana, a local prose column serio-comically suggested that the country’s culturally exclusive name should be replaced with a new one – Last Minute. The reason given was that practically everyone in the country tends to do things at the very last minute and no one would be able to credibly complain about the new name not being inclusive. At the very last minute, when a bill that will ban trophy hunting imports into is about to become law and similar legislation is being enacted across Europe, it is only now that panicked Botswana leaders are ricocheting from London to Berlin to Paris.
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