Venson-Moitoi revelations telling
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Hence what the former Minister of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) said in Parliament this week should trouble the nation. Her revelations have serious implications on the way our Government operates.
As we have noted, Venson-Moitoi is not an ordinary MP. Her influence became real last year when, despite her glaring failures at MoESD, President Ian Khama could not fire her. Instead he side-shifted her; removing but not really removing her from her ministerial position. Khama appointed the current Vice-President Mokgweetsi Masisi the acting Minister of Education, and announced that Venson-Moitoi would stay to work on a ‘project’ within the ministry. Though she was officially not a minister, she continued to undertake Cabinet duties as if it was business as usual.
Stock theft has become rampant and difficult to contain thus keeping the police on their toes as the country is rocked by stock theft cases that are becoming difficult to contain.This form of crime is causing great misery to farmers in Botswana, especially in rural communities that largely depend on agriculture for a living. As stock theft cases escalate, the police say that most of the meat consumed in major towns and villages is from stolen...