How not to win general elections

To be successful democracy must be based on a set of principles: equal rights of all the people within the geographic jurisdiction, guaranteed participation by all within a particular territory, non-discrimination between groups of different ethnicity, periodic  elections conducted by an impartial body, the winner of the general elections to be based on the majority of people who participated in a free, fair and credible poll.

To pass the test of the application of the above stated principles the major assumption must be whether the participants in such a democratic setting enjoy the rights as outlined above. In the previous general elections one would be right to say the majority of Batswana were virtually forced to buy a pig in a poker The majority Batswana live in the rural areas where poverty, illiteracy, misinformation reign supreme.