Democracy under siege: Government refuses reforms

However, a democracy can also regress before consolidating. Samuel Huntington contends that democracy consolidates when the opposition wins and the governing party loses and cede power in a smooth transition. Others think that if there is no exchange of power, at least the polity should have strong and developed democratic institutions.

Botswana has made history by being the only country in Sub-Saharan Africa to retain multiparty-democratic system since independence. Whilst the region experienced undemocratic alternatives such as dictatorships, one-party states and kleptocracies, the country’s liberal democratic record remained unbroken. However, as the saying goes, in the land of the blind one-eyed man is king.