Is DIS partly to blame for Tholwana Borethe?

May I extend a semblance of sympathy to the Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DIS) in Botswana. Of recent newspapers and commentators have been on a jovial mood as it appeared something newsworthy had arrived at the doorstep of our journalists.

It appeared most of the editorial houses had the big fish in their possession. Tholwana Borethe came as something of a diamond, a treasure of sorts and an editorial must have. Need I introduce Tholwana Borethe? I doubt.

Well after the Bobonong debacle where the Botswana Movement for Democracy and by extension the Umbrella For Democratic Change came back with battered egos and soiled political reputations, newspapers sought to quell off frustrations of many by publishing what would go down memory lane as one of the worst own goals by our local publishers. A document, which now with hindsight we gather is fraudulent, was passed, clearly with design and terrible intention, to the media houses to spread untruths about the DIS and its involvement in the divisions within opposition political parties. This column therefore seeks to see whether there was a glaring act of irresponsibility from the media and whether the DIS must similarly take blame for having its name being so soiled.

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