Buy A House? Sell A Road?

Single houses only rarely make it into the national news. There was, however, an exception last week with the Sunday Standard coming up with an extraordinarily tortuous report about the P3 million house that had apparently been purchased by the ex-president, courtesy of the former Minister, Sadique Kebonang.

This house, which was built and originally owned by the BHC, is now owned by the BPC and, until recently, it had been occupied by the BPC manager.

It would be interesting to know why the BPC should have purchased this house and why, indeed, would the BHC have wanted to sell it, and when? Rre Kebonang was reported as saying that he thought that we (who?) also thought that it was a good idea to sell the house to the ex-president because he already owned one that was adjacent and because ‘the understanding’ (whose?) was that the house would be occupied by the President on his retirement!

Editor's Comment
Inspect the voters' roll!

The recent disclosure by the IEC that 2,513 registrations have been turned down due to various irregularities should prompt all Batswana to meticulously review the voters' rolls and address concerns about rejected registrations.The disparities flagged by the IEC are troubling and emphasise the significance of rigorous voter registration processes.Out of the rejected registrations, 29 individuals were disqualified due to non-existent Omang...

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