After Unity Dow announced her resignation from the judiciary to join active party politics, I wrote on this space that it was a mistake on her part to go into politics.
I still think it was a clumsy decision on her part.
I reasoned that there was no shortage of politicians in Botswana.
What the country needed most were people who could provide the country with strong moral compass.
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