It's hard saying these things. Somehow you wish everything was working fine. No one wants to denigrate President Masisi. But we face the pitiless logic of facts. The war effort has backfired spectacularly. It has backfired because it was turned into a looting fest. Masks were sold at P600 a unit. Town Mayors supplied relief essentials, and tenders were given to close family of those in power. President Masisi had hoped to replicate former President Mogae's success without following, or learning from his example. Sadly, things have gone south. They have gone south, not because we don't have skilled people among us for the job. I belive Dr. Masupu, Prof. Mosepele and their charges are eminently qualified. Things have gone south, because we lacked political leadership.
How did we overlook the need for just one, extra facility. How did we overlook the need for capacitation, after two extentions of the State of Emergency. We have gone through two successive waves of the virus, and we came out, no wiser. Surely, buying vaccines was no capacitation. When the SOE was first sought, there was no vaccine in the market. So, delays in vaccine arrivals are a pretext. Now the money is gone, and the people are dying. The nation is in fear. The nation is grieving. And the nation is angry. Never has public frustration been so palpable. Never in my forty five years of life, and living through three Presidents, have I seen our people lose faith so quickly in their leadership.
