Let's Make Our Vote Count

We have been down this road before, and we will keep travelling it until citizenry understand the importance of each and every one’s democratic right of choosing their government.

In recent years political debate seem to have gone up amongst citizens, which is a very welcome development. It is also important to match the debate with exercising our rights as citizens to choose our government. It does not help much to keep criticising, our representatives, without action.

The public nowadays engage in debate on array of issues both for and against government, which under normal circumstances should translate into ensuring that we hold our representatives accountable to ensure that our democracy is not threatened, and more over to ensure that decisions taken by the government of the day are not self serving, but rather for the benefit and protection of the whole citizenry.

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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