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The BDP - inconsistently streetwise
Most of us have reason to congratulate the Botswana Democratic Party for being generally a party of good manners and tolerance, for its avoidance of dogma and its sense of restraint.

But a party with its track record should by now have found itself a reputable historian to tell its tale from its beginnings when much of the rest of Africa regarded it with distaste.

This should be a proper history, not a whitewash job recording one electoral success after another.

Editor's Comment
Closure as pain lingers

March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...

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