Bye-Bye 2009 Hello 2010

This year recorded many extra-judicial killings and this made people to even think that the country was degenerating into a police state. In fact, there was a ground swell of opinion against the setting up of the Directorate of Intelligence Services (DIS) which was deemed to be a witch-hunt organ for the state. Even as we speak, the DIS is in the news. They are accused for killing people willy-nilly.

In the region, the focus was on Zimbabwe where the incumbent President Robert Mugabe was accused of cheating during the national general elections. There were protracted negotiations between Mugabe of the ZANU-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Prior to elections, ZANU-PF operatives terrorised MDC supporters and the playing field was not level going into the elections.
During this year, the world was hit by the economic recession. Botswana was not spared.