Falsehoods from a statement that was put out by former president Ian Khama’s public relations machine are being used as basis for serious analysis and may be gaining plausibility among top-tier think tanks with immense global reach.
The 2023 edition of the Economic Freedom of the World Annual Report from a Canadian think tank called Fraser Institute, alludes to “increasingly worrying signs … that may undermine the nation’s freer future.” It goes farther to illustrate such assertion with the example of what is supposed to have transpired in Geneva, Switzerland earlier this year – but actually never did.
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