Govt persists on 'His Master's Voice'

It is this latter point that seems to make our Botswana Democratic Party-led government determined to manage and filter information reaching the tax-paying public.  It is not enough that the government media - Radio Botswana, Botswana Television and The Daily News - have been reduced to propaganda tools that spew nothing more than where the next round of blankets will be distributed.  It is not enough that the BDP-majority Parliament saw fit to pass a law that exempts Btv and RB from regulation. 

Yesterday, a reporter and a photographer from Mmegi were prevented from entering the Office of the President where President of the Pan African Parliament, Bethel Amadi, was paying a courtesy call on President Ian Khama.Our team was told that it was not on a "list" of invited media. Yet Mmegi went there in response to a letter of invitation signed by the Principal Public Relations Officer of the National Assembly, Karabo Marumo.