2024: What a year for Botswana!

This year, Botswana found itself at the crossroads of political headwinds, economic reckoning, and social dynamism. These events painted an intriguing real-life plot as colourful as it was complex, leaving us with plenty to chew on as we usher in 2025, recharged with optimism.

Politics in Botswana this year resembled a telenovela, a riveting blend of drama, intrigue, and the occasional plot twist. The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) continued to grapple with internal factionalism, a spectre that seemed determined to linger despite efforts at unity. At the same time, save for the Botswana Congress Party, opposition parties, while occasionally showing flashes of tension, spent much of the year working on political unity, proving that it is not true that such unity is only theoretically possible but always practically elusive.