Politicians that we all are, do not live only by the ideas of how we govern ourselves but how we sustain ourselves daily; politics and economics are, therefore, two sides of the same coin. That is why the Bible states: " Man shall live by the sweat of his brow" while Marxism declares: "He who does not work, neither shall he eat." In our modern day the preamble of the constitution of the Industrial and Commercial Workers of Africa (ICU), a union led by Clement Kadalie an immigrant Malawian in South Africa in the early '20s, calls for scrutiny by trade unionists and opposition politicians in Botswana:
"Whereas the interest of the workers and those of the employers are opposed to each other, the former living by selling their labour, receiving for it only part of the wealth they produce; and the latter living by exploiting the labour of the workers; depriving the workers of a part of their labour in the form of profit, no peace can be between the two classes, a struggle must always obtain about the division of the products of human labour, until the workers through their industrial organisations take from the capitalist class the means of production, to be owned and controlled by the workers for the benefit of all, instead of a few...." (Revised Constitution of the ICU, 1925)
