Reverend Mmualefe's comments are misleading
This response seeks to correct the obvious inaccuracies raised in your paper of 10 April 2006, titled "The Children of Abraham". In the first place, the reporter, Mesh Moeti, in his total lack of neutrality, offensively labels the story of Abraham and Isaac a "tale". The reverend Mmualefe labels it a "legend which is neither here nor there". I have no major business with smart Muslims like Segaise seeking to establish the legitimacy of their religion by re-writing the story more than 2500 years after it happened, but suffice it to say that Ishmael and Hagar had already left, never to return again. So indeed the only son left, as specified, was Isaac.

The immorality and traversity of justice in Botswana
It is well known that Botswana serves as an example of democracy in Africa and beyond. What people fail to do is to interrogate the enormity of the manipulative regime and get to define democracy in a more dynamic way. Democracy must not be defined confining the understanding and meaning of it only to an electoral process. It must be interpreted to embrace multiple concepts including but not exclusive to justice. It must accordingly embrace equality and respect for the laws of the country.

Lord Advebury is right (part II)
Continued from last week... Lord Avebury also pointed out that 'Freedom of Information should be enshrined in law'. Botswana the self-proclaimed paragon of democracy in Africa is counted among the most 'secretive regimes' by a Commonwealth study. Instead of passing this all-important bill, this country is now moving in the opposite direction by setting up an intelligence agency ostensibly to deal with external enemies but we know that the real target will be people who hold dissenting voices within the country. This attempt to make this country a police state is the single greatest threat to all the limited freedoms and civil liberties this country was known for and requires the entire nation to stand up and fight it with vigour and determination.