This Moitoi is toying with our democracy

Minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi is rapidly turning herself into a by-word for a usurper of freedom of expression and other civil liberties. Just what is Venson-Moitoi trying to achieve?

We got a glimpse of what Venson-Moitoi is trying to achieve on the Botswana Television news broadcast on Wednesday. The whole broadcast was all about her as if she is the only news happening in Botswana.

We lost count of how many times she appeared on Venson-Moitoi's long reels, some of them repeated. After all she is the minister of communications and she can direct the Btv and the whole government broadcasting empire to force a diet of Venson-Moitoi on the nation.

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