Batswana led like sheep to the slaughter!

The bleakest news about our country today is the P15 billion pula Gripen Fighter jets procurement. This, from all information sources available is in fact more than a done deal.

The President is accompanied by his sidekick Shaw Kgathi, the Minister of Defence, Justice and Security (DJS) who normally should be negotiating the deal, but has taken the back seat. I wonder, why?  Could aggression be that imminent that arms deal negotiations are done by commanders-in-chief? Sweden historically played a peacekeeping role by condemning the USA for napalming the Vietnamese when Olof Palme was Premier!

Palme condemned the atrocities committed by the USA without fear or hesitation at every convenient world forum; now we have Stefan Lovren pleading no patronising by journalists, when he without a pang of conscience plunges into it in order to seal the deal at the mock press-conference-cum-negotiating-table! Why does Sweden and the rest of the imperialist world try to keep developing countries, Africa in particular, engaged in conflicts?

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Routine child vaccination imperative

The recent Vaccination Day in Motokwe, orchestrated through collaborative efforts between UNICEF, USAID, BRCS, and the Ministry of Health, underscores a commendable stride towards fortifying child health services.The painful reality as reflected by the Ministry of Health's data regarding the decline in routine immunisation coverage since the onset of the pandemic, is a cause for concern.It underscores the urgent need to address the...

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