Do away with religious hypocrisy

When President Ian Khama set up the Commission on Moral Regeneration four years ago, he did so owing to outcry from Batswana. The expressed desire of Batswana was to see the nation regenerate morally. There was too much drunkenness and disrespect for the virtues that had established us as a nation. Many of these virtues were encapsulated in our trademark of Botho.

But as the visiting minister said, today’s society is falling apart because it has rejected its age-old values. Alcoholism runs the roost. Absolute lack of shame where young men and women, and sometimes, older people strut our streets almost naked, has taken over. Yet no one can say anything because ‘they have the right’ to dress according to their choice.