A voter's dilemma

Voters in a queue. PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO.
Voters in a queue. PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO.

With less than three months to go before Botswana’s national election, the country finds itself bombarded from all sides by different crises of different proportions.

The political debate space has gotten messier and deviated from the ideal to the level of ‘getting power by any means necessary’.

Elections are naturally a heated contestation of personalities, and if we are lucky, a hot contestation of ideas, solutions and policies. With this year’s election cycle, we’ve been treated to a tad bit of both.

Editor's Comment
UDC's 100 Days: Please deliver your promises!

We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...

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