If Motswaledi was killed, surely Intelligence had a hand in it
Friday, August 08, 2014
The moment Gomolemo Motswaledi’s death was announced, it seems almost the whole nation thought he was deliberately killed. This was even before we could get the faintest details of the said accident. One thing I am certain of is that no single person or group peddled these rumours; rather almost every individual had this opinion on their point of contact with the news. As has always been the case, someone is going to lay the blame at the door of the media for the current swelling public opinion. But take my word for it, the media had no role in building the current public opinion.
It seems the level of mistrust by the public on its own government is at its epitome when taking into account the current atmosphere existing within the public sphere. For a number of years now, the media has cautioned us on the growing dictatorial tendencies of our current political crop as these leaders are certainly growing some form of intolerance on its own people. One thing we can agree on is that the government has been slowly losing public trust and the Motswaledi freak accident has literally pulled the rug from under the leadership’s feet.
March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...