Wednesday, January 21, 2026

This why did Masisi look scared on Election Day

For the 58 years during which a Botswana president has never looked like he was caught in camera lights, there has never been reason to modify the deer-caught-in-the-headlights cliché. Thanks to the blessings of digital technology, a late morning scene from a Moshupa polling station makes “president caught in camera lights” an attractive replacement.

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