Vote rigging in Botswana general elections?
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Like all competitive events performance depends much on regular and concerted training in preparation for the event. Hit-and-miss, haphazard type of training won’t yield good results. Where should the candidates start? To be certain the candidates must engage the voters from the word go; they must demonstrate by word and deed they aren’t on a binge, a flirtatious course but on a mission to marry the voters, ‘till death do us part!’
Some candidate-pretenders have already bitten the dust. Complaints to relevant structures have been lodged and are being processed. Losers will start preparing for the next primaries, winners for the main contest. The earliest bird catches the fattest worm! At this juncture successful candidates will have support from party primaries rivals if they have succeeded in making reconciliation which they ought to make. Failure to reconcile with erstwhile party rivals can be disastrous, it’s essential to avoid fighting the war on many fronts, therefore reconciliation is of the utmost importance!
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...