Let's Make Our Vote Count

We have been down this road before, and we will keep travelling it until citizenry understand the importance of each and every one’s democratic right of choosing their government.

In recent years political debate seem to have gone up amongst citizens, which is a very welcome development. It is also important to match the debate with exercising our rights as citizens to choose our government. It does not help much to keep criticising, our representatives, without action.

The public nowadays engage in debate on array of issues both for and against government, which under normal circumstances should translate into ensuring that we hold our representatives accountable to ensure that our democracy is not threatened, and more over to ensure that decisions taken by the government of the day are not self serving, but rather for the benefit and protection of the whole citizenry.

Editor's Comment
Gov’t must rectify recognition of Khama as Kgosi

While it is widely acknowledged that Khama holds the title of Kgosi, the government’s failure to properly gazette his recognition has raised serious concerns about adherence to legal procedures and the credibility of traditional leadership. (See a story elsewhere in this newspaper.) Recent court documents by the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Kgotla Autlwetse, shed light on the intricacies of Khama’s recognition process....

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