One more push

In the age of COVID-19, where public health authorities have to thread between savings lives and preserving livelihoods, the stakes are clearly higher.

Batswana, like other citizens of the world, have endured a difficult, unprecedented year where many liberties we take for granted, or never even thought about, were taken away. Earlier this year, even the right to walk to outside one’s gate became subject to government authority. The freedom to smoke a cigarette or indulge in one’s favourite alcoholic beverage was suspended for months as a way of restraining the pandemic.