Big Brother And The Conservative Audience
Monday, September 22, 2014
Botswana is represented by a certain Goitse from Mahalapye who describes herself simply as someone who lives on the wild side and is ready to wow the audience.
Hopefully, everyone will love, or at least respect her for who she is. Indeed the Big Brother activities can either make you a hero or a villain amongst your people. The audience always views the person in the house as a representative of their country, and any perception of way-ward behavior can spark scorn and controversy.
The BDP as a party known to have ample resources has always held its primaries well in time, but this time around that was not the case. The first leg of the primaries was held last weekend, with the final leg being billed for the coming weekend. This time around, the BDP failed to shine in its primary elections. The elections were chaotic; most if not all polling stations didn't open at the specified time of 6am. Loyal BDP members braved the...