Tiger Kloof out - Swaneng in?

New members of the IEC are now being appointed – will they have the capability to ensure that this election will be relatively clean? Hopefully, it will ensure that the BDP’s determination to ensure itself a win, will not tempt it into adopting some of the tactics used in Zimbabwe which it had earlier, so admirably, condemned.

Was it Mobuto or Mugabe who said that if you are in charge, you cannot lose an election? And there really can be no doubt that the BDP government is, in so many ways, in charge. We are therefore presented with what could be seen as a contradiction in terms.