Determination and despair in a season of no rain
Friday, January 23, 2015
These are months during which Botswana farmers, most of whom rely on rainfall, expect their crops to be nearing maturity.
With a gloomy forecast as provided by the DMS, it is doubtful if the country will produce a bumper harvest as it did last year.
A few weeks after the former ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) was reduced to a pale shadow of itself in the just passed General Election on October 30, it was only logical that you take a conscious decision of resigning from the party. This was before you could be pushed out of the position by irate party diehards who feel you did not do enough during your tenure as the head of the party secretariat.We know that it is at the party...