Vote rigging in Botswana general elections?

General elections are coming. Political parties, candidates for the political marathon and voters who back the various runners in this race, on your marks! General elections are a gruelling race that start immediately the preceding one ends.

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!

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The corrupt must account

This ruling is more than a technical legal decision it is a mirror reflecting the rot in the country’s procurement processes and governance.For far too long, government officials have twisted regulations to serve their interests, betraying the very citizens they are sworn to serve.The Judiciary’s rejection of this appeal is a timely reminder that corruption—no matter how deeply entrenched cannot indefinitely escape accountability. Yet,...

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