BDP and Moatlhodi are no heroes

In our considered view, the event marks, in very graphic terms, a number of patterns, all showing a dramatic turn for the worst in our democratic development. The ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) would like to define government as an executive led by the party leadership.

Here, the executive dominates and leads the other arms of government. In other words, the BDP bigwigs like to think that Parliament is or should be answerable to the executive. The Moatlhodi fiasco has inadvertently furthered this ominous pattern. It has not slammed the brakes on the assumption as some would like to believe.