How Far Can He Go? How Far Can He Not Go? :: Mmegi Online

First came the Presidential helicopter, so we were told, then the beginnings of new relationships with the press, the unions and the Chinese. Then came the volcanic eruption – the firing of Col. Kgosi - the recall of Mr Roy Blackbeard from London, the one after a 10-year tenure and the other, 20, and the appointment of Unity Dow to take his place; Judge, Minister and now High Commissioner.

Quite a career. What next? Perhaps we shouldn’t speculate. Perhaps we should not be too hopeful. But inevitably we will wait, with much eagerness to see what next transpires.

The now ex-Director of the DIS has come to epitomise so much of the last 10 years – its divisiveness, its greed, its corruption, its erosion of democracy and the economy and its unabashed centralisation of power in one’s person’s hands. There will be many who never knew Botswana when it was such a beautiful country.

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