Making Hay While The Sun Shines

Street vendors in main mall. PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG.jpg
Street vendors in main mall. PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG.jpg

Election year comes every five years in Botswana, and for some, this is the time to rake in profits while some lose big time.

Nevertheless, this is the year where aspiring council candidates and Members of Parliament get to spend their last Thebes to secure their future for the coming five years.

Just like the past election years, this time around we have seen political parties flex their muscles and spend large sums of money, especially over the last year of the political race, transporting their candidates and staff, political consultants, communication costs, food and branding just to mention a few.

Editor's Comment
Human rights are sacred

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...

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