The disparity between the rich and poor in this country is reaching boiling point.
If not addressed promptly it will be difficult to address in future.
And with time become a serious national security threat.
It is difficult to see how the rich are able to sleep peacefully knowing that they are surrounded by the poor and the disgruntled.
Such differences are more pronounced between the indigenous Batswana and the naturalized business communities.
The obscene wealth among the Asian business community ÔÇô as represented by the Indians, Pakistanis and Chinese ÔÇô living side by side with degrading poverty among Batswana inevitably creates envy, hostility, resentment and jealousy.
In other countries, this has manifested itself in what has often been wrongfully referred to as xenophobia.
This attitude grows and becomes more pronounced during times of economic difficulties.
And indigenous Batswana are going through economic difficulties.
There is no evidence to prove that their Government feels their pain.
It is the rich, who are for most of time naturalized business people who benefit the most from endemic corruption in this country as they bribe Government officials to access business and also get business including circumventing the rules of fair commercial competition.
There is also subtle racism among these communities, sadly even among those professing to be religious in both their private and public their lives.
Not only do they talk of indigenous Batswana as people of low moral rectitude, they also are seldom willing to help struggling indigenous Batswana business people.
Whatever gifts they make are nothing much more than tokenism, often far less in value to the adverts they would subsequently place in public media to showcase and parade such gifts.
They talk down at indigenous Batswana, and often openly talk of them in very disparaging terms.
It is never correct to paint a whole community with the same brush.
But in this instance because the good are so few and far between, it is one of those rare occasions when generalisations is not only correct but also apt.
It is difficult to see how seriously these people regard their Botswana citizenship, which for most of the time they easily get by bribing civil servants and security agents responsible for issuing the same.
No wonder many of them, even as they like to profess being citizens of this country, only on account of their passports and Omang cards, their loyalty remains with their native countries as shown by the extent to which they repatriate their money almost on a daily basis.
Whether we like it or not, the disproportionate inequality between indigenous Batswana and the other sections of society is creating untold resentment.
The sad thing is that most of the wealth that these people create in this country does not get invested here. It goes out.
It therefore follows that should this country go belly up as it seems ever more likely, these great beneficiaries of this country will overnight dissipate into thin air back to their real countries.
It will not be easy to roll back the power and privilege of expatriates in Botswana.
They have in their grasp the power of wealth and economic might.
But they have also pocketed the people who pass for our political leaders.
These leaders are nothing more than puppets, serving at the pleasure of wealthy Asian, Arab and Chinese business people in this country.
Even when popular public opinion is on the side of these men of straw called politicians, it is often very easily derailed by the moneyed interests.
The case for these wealthy business people connecting and showing real attachment to this country and its future is overwhelming.
