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Judging by her underachievement as a legislator, Monnakgotla does not seem to have earned her place in Cabinet. The President must have looked ahead at the big picture of raising her political profile to boost her chances of retaining the marginal...

But her lament, just like the voices of dissent that came before hers, might suffer the same fate of falling on deaf ears. A strong case has been made. And there is no doubt. The Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) is a rogue institution....

The first is personal. His son Ian Khama is being hauled in coals by a party he co-founded. He is worried, not that his son should be untouchable, but because of the absence of due process.The second factor tearing Seretse’s soul is that the...

Masisi has given the nation and the world a good lecture on Politics 101. And that is how to exploit for political purposes, personal differences with a rival (real or imagined). The raging conflict between former president Ian Khama and his...

For Ian Khama, past immediate State president, there was no turning back. He had made his mind and had full confidence and faith in his anointed successor. Khama did not have the foggiest idea as to why naming Masisi as his successor could be a...

Save for the 1998 debacle where the late Kenneth Koma , founding father of the BNF, could not avert a split of the party, he had laid a solid foundation for opposition politics. Even during the late Sir Seretse Khama’s time, the BNF, “posed a...

It has been a long and tiring journey. And some of the war weary cadres have since jumped ship to join the party they had opposed with everything they had. The 55-year-old war has been generally an exercise in futility in so far as its objective of...

It did not make sense to think of any future for a small poor country geographically enveloped by powerful and hostile regimes diametrically opposed to principles Botswana cherished. It was a daring and audacious adventure for Botswana to disregard...

The founding president had to walk a tight rope creating a balance between advocating cherished principles of justice, freedom, democracy, the rule of law and surviving propaganda, threats and acts of aggression perpetrated by neighbouring hostile...

The late Sir Seretse Khama and the late Sethomo Masisi were at the helm of government in the trying formative days of Botswana’s sovereignty. For 10 years (2008-2018) Khama and Masisi seemed to have been brought together by destiny. Theirs sounded...

But as soon as Seretse vanished from the political scene, cracks began to emerge in the party. It would appear the party was caught napping as it seemed that it had not prepared itself for life without Seretse. Even before Seretse was buried...

Within three years of Masisi’s reign, people have nothing to show except the burden of carrying a lot of un-kept 2019 promises.And more promises are still flowing. The latest made is the urgent creation of more millionaires to beef up the numbers...

There they go again- the apostles and functionaries of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) led government have unleashed the whole might of State machinery to frustrate, stigmatise and denigrate a voice in the wilderness in the form of one of...

It was at a well attended kgotla meeting in Serowe to bid outgoing president farewell in 2018, that Khama confidently told the whole world that Botswana would be a better country to live in under Masisi's capable hands of Masisi. “Go tsile go...

For the ruling party, it must have given President Mokgweetsi Masisi a bit of a headache to form a new Cabinet out of a stock of freshers, predominantly young and with little or no political experience. Perhaps it came as no surprise that even when...