Mea Culpa, for thinking Botswana was a banana republic

It’s on the basis of the report that some former African presidents have received awards running into hundreds of thousands of US dollars from the Foundation for the quality of their countries’ governance while they were at the helm.

Our own F.G. Mogae was rewarded for his standard of governance; Joachim Chisano of Mozambique was another president-do-gooder as well as another from the Cape Verde. There have been some years of drought, which implied that no president was eligible for the prize. It meant standards were declining.