Open Letter To Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi

Dear Honourable Mr Mokgweetsi Masisi, MP,

I write to you this open letter as a fellow citizen and, like you, a political leader.  When I took the decision to enter the terrain of active politics a few years ago I had high hopes. I thought I would be able to contribute, even if modestly, to the shaping of a value-based leadership in the exercise of politics in Botswana. I have worked as a clergyman, a community activist, educationist and a theologian and believed that these experiences would add value to our politics. I saw this as a patriotic decision.  However, most people around me chided me for this decision arguing that politics is too dirty and unalterable.