The president of Business Botswana Neo Nwako will spend this weekend feeling very much the same way like many of us who spent a lifetime in journalism would often have felt when under pointed attacks from a sitting head of state.
Such encounters were frequent during former president Ian Khama’s time. But Mokgweetsi Masisi too would do it, as he once did with journalist Sharon Mathala.
I remember Festus Mogae taking the late Rampholo Molefhe to the cleaners – effectively saying the journalist had not spent enough time at school.
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