Khama could be charting a new path

Our neighbourhoods will be free from the clamour of political campaigns. We hope there will be no more loud hailers that rupture the morning quiet to recede only in the late hours of the night. Our street poles will look neater as the election posters that drape them wither away. For some time now we might actually focus on development and delivery.

Perhaps before we 'cleanse' our system of the toxic effects of the 2009 general elections, we could address one issue we put a seal on the subject of the elections, and that is the issue of SEMPs, the so-called Specially Elected Members of Parliament. No doubt this is the cancer that still gnaws at our democracy. In this day and age, we do not need this manifest anachronism and superfluity, and it is doubtful that we ever needed it.