Bailout, suicide, all out of one bag

Even among the underdeveloped countries such as Botswana, the law has learnt to adapt to the inadequacies and excesses of the actors in the political and economic arena as they pursue their class interests. It would be folly therefore, to view the passing of Louis Nchindo, one time executive of Debswana, as an isolated incident or an aberration in the normal and natural flow of things in capitalist Botswana.He was the ultimate embodiment of relations between the DeBeers multinational mining conglomerate and the government of Botswana.

If it cannot be argued that his death was the very result of his status as the link pin between De Beers' economic interests and the political programme of the government, it remains difficult to separate his passing from the joint interests of the company and the state.