The Umbrella Paradox: Manipulation, False Ideation And Utopian Reforms

DAMA MOSWEUNYANE | Monday March 26, 2012 00:00

The ordinary people were tantalised and believed that they will be freed from the BDP imperious neo-liberal zealots, who like the BCP believe in capital market liberalisation and privatisation. 

It has to be noted that the opposition is characterized by idiocy resulting from its lack of ideological premise and politically informed leadership. The opposition leaders are into politics for ostentation and opulence or vulgar materialism, than for the amelioration of living conditions of those whose lives are wretched. It is this evil that is responsible for the prolonged unmerited stay of BDP in power. 

The most important point is that all political parties in Botswana are led by the political and economic elite that connive to selfishly safeguard its own interests and aspirations. The paupers are made to view the party that is in power as malevolent and corrupt, which is true, with less or no acknowledgement of the benefits that the ruling party extends to the opposition party leadership. The Botswana Democratic Party has always placed the opposition leaders in positions of privilege, with numerous legitimate benefits that allow them to accrued wealth. These privileges serve to instill axiomatic obscurity on the opposition leaders to comprehend the realities that define miserable lives characterised by squalor and desolation that some Batswana are relegated to by the ruling party.

The opposition leaders literally thrive on the misery of the impoverished by blackmailing the ruling party through releasing information on its malpractices and malversation. In return the opposition has given the BDP as a token of appreciation the latitude to preside over discriminatory legislations, which the opposition parliamentarians have over the years failed to challenge. For instance, poor people suffer incarceration for poaching, as they kill wild animals for domestic consumption, whilst the rich enjoy judicial immunity for taxidermal decorations made from animals that they kill in their farms.  The rich demarcate and sell land for millions of Dollars, whilst cries of the paupers curdle the air as their dwelling structures are turned into rabble by the ruthless regime for the land that they buy from mini replicas of the capitalist squires.

The opposition quack politicians dine and wine with their counterparts from the ruling party, which clearly show their determination in protecting their class interests. It is this class propinquity that triggered their greed, which led to their encroachment on Basarwa ancestral land that resulted in their gruesome evictions.

Basarwa got exposed to HIV/AIDS infections as they were led compulsorily to different destinations against their will. The evictions were executed in the manner that resonates with how the British evicted powerless people of Diago Garcia from their ancestral land, which was donated by the British to the USA for a military base. This explains why the British government continues to disregard the ferocious violations that are meted against Basarwa by the government of Botswana.

It is clandestinely clear that the opposition parties such as Botswana National Front and Botswana Congress Party are not in a hurry to take over political and economic power from the BDP. This is because they benefit immensely from BDP mismanagement of the economy through running private entities. What the opposition parties are interested in is to win just a few constituencies during general elections to keep the gullible and ignorant individuals holding to the hope that someday the day of liberty will dawn.

The solution to the problems that have besieged our political sphere is a political formation that will deliberately foster a process of indigenisation and nationalisation. This formation should be directed at stopping the fleecing of national resources by an unscrupulous clique made of the ruling class and its pretentious opposition. The formation should inculcate values in its political leaders that sacrifices in the interest of the impoverished individuals are necessary and inevitable. It is important than it has ever been before to form a political party that will free Batswana from melancholy of poverty, retrenchments, disease ,ignorance and exploitation that the BDP have prescribed for them.

It has now become unavoidable to form Botswana Isocracy Movement (BIM), which will economically, politically and socially empower Batswana. The political movement will not only sing negative Western polemics, but seek to demonstrate to the people that imperialism and capitalism is responsible for their socio-economic and political maladies. BIM will be a movement based on communitarian ideals defined by collective ownership of natural resources and collective decision making. The movement will undertake to employ reformist strategies based on the following characteristics:

* Land re-distribution with restrictions on land ownership (An individual Botswana squire will not be allowed to own more than fifty square kilometres of land)* Promotion of agrarian activities through rebates and subsidies* Social cohesion characterised by cooperative initiatives and communitarian decision making* Curtailing of presidential powers and timocracy through the promotion of isocratic powers * Remunerations based on service rendered, without any fringe benefits ( no employee will receive any extra benefits beside his/her salary and terminal benefits)* Education curricula that will emphasise patriotism, voluntarism, Occidentalism, and economic, social and political equity * Emphasis and support of lifelong learning at both community and national levels * Equitable dispensation of justice based on nobility, defined by transparency and fairness * Elimination of mild penalties for corruption and economic crimes (introduction of a seven years mandatory custodial sentences for corruption and economic crimes).

Most importantly, BIM will spare BDP and other political parties from justified remorseless and antagonistic vengeance of the ordinary people, who have suffered deceit at their hands. The patience of the ordinary people on the democratic faade and citizens' economic empowerment charade will fade. They will realise that the opposition parties and the ruling party have connived to caste upon them miseries that define their dangerous existence. I predict a revolution that no amount of opposing force can subdue. God forbid!