In politics, yesterday’s executioner can become tomorrow’s accused. That is what makes the possible addition of former minister and Permanent Secretary to the President Eric Molale to the Noah Salakae corruption case so politically intriguing.
On the surface, it is another corruption prosecution involving a multibillion-pula government tender. Beneath that, however, lies a story stretching back more than a decade, a story involving a dismissal letter, a defiant magistrate and the long memory of Botswana’s public institutions.
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