Chief o' lies insults nation's intelligence

Four American presidents have been assassinated in office. Abraham Lincoln was the first to be slain in 1865 followed by James Garfield in 1881. The beginning of the 20th Century witnessed the killing of President William McKinley in 1901.

It would be another six decades before the November 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy made him the fourth and last American president to be assassinated.

There is a lamentable cost to the assassination of a Head of State. Political assassinations are different from other murders both in motivation and in consequences. A bullet fired by Serbian nationalist killing Austria’s Archduke in 1914 sparked the First World War which arguably paved way to the Second.

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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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