Elections are here; who wins?

Nine successive general elections since Botswana’s independence, victory has belonged to the BDP – 48 long years! Were the BDP to win in October it will have been in power for an unbroken 53-year-period by 2018! Botswana would for all intents and purposes be a one-party state! Though the founding fathers at independence rejected a single-party system, Batswana subsequently seem to have smuggled the system through the backdoor.


Genuine multi-party democracy, implies a dynamic political system with competing interests pregnant with a periodic alternation of rulers.  A one-party state in a multiparty democracy is a contradiction in terms with no provision for reglme change, either due to ruling party manipulation or abject opposition surrender!

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Closure as pain lingers

March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...

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