We agree with Vice President Ponatshego Kedikilwe that the launch of the CAAC is a milestone for Botswana and the country's peers in the Commonwealth and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).The commitment to fight any form of corruption is laudable and should be encouraged. As Kedikilwe has said, this will promote long-term sustainable economic growth within member states. "This is one among many shared values that make all of us proud members of the Commonwealth," the Vice President said. That fighting corruption requires the collective force of many cannot be overemphasised because we living in a continent where corruption is the order of the day. It is through the corrupt self-aggrandisement of certain African leaders - megalomaniacs, really - that their individual wealth far exceeds that of their countries. In fact, corruption is so rife in Africa that it is the hardest thing to think it is legally outlawed.
The continent is the poorer and notorious because of these crooked monsters who cannot tell personal property and state coffers apart. The scourge is so embedded and ubiquitous that the children of the thieves in high places tend to inherit it.Africa has been reduced to a lawless lair of gangsters in the guise of political leaders that the continent will need massive resources to eradicate it. While Botswana is considered one of the least corrupt countries in Africa, we know that the country lost its innocence a long time ago and that Government Enclave will be a good place to start for the new graft busters because the knaves are virtually out of bounds to DCEC and the police.
