Mea Culpa, for thinking Botswana was a banana republic

The 2016 Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) was launched last week by Mo Ibrahim Foundation. The Index is a comprehensive analysis of governance in the 54 African countries.

It’s on the basis of the report that some former African presidents have received awards running into hundreds of thousands of US dollars from the Foundation for the quality of their countries’ governance while they were at the helm.

Our own F.G. Mogae was rewarded for his standard of governance; Joachim Chisano of Mozambique was another president-do-gooder as well as another from the Cape Verde. There have been some years of drought, which implied that no president was eligible for the prize. It meant standards were declining.

Editor's Comment
UDC's 100 Days: Please deliver your promises!

We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...

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