And how is it possible that the recipient of the most laudable plaudits in the developing world should turn out to be the cradle of some of the planet's worst scams?
The answer lies in the country's many invisible nooks and crannies that are aided by the stubborn optimism and innocence of its people. Much of the corruption is perpetrated by the nation's most adored families on whom no citizen is ever likely to cast aspersions and is framed around a national psyche that invests its leaders with a virtue of near godhood. It is such a crime that corruption takes root and thrives. Enter a pseudo-monarchy that masquerades as a democracy, and the deception is complete! We may never know when the Khama brothers, Anthony and Tshekedi, first began the game of duping the unsuspecting nation. However, such is the extent of their wealth gotten in this manner that the late Brian Egner - that formidable of Botswana's early crop of economists and journalists - was prompted to say the men could buy a coup anywhere.
