DK: The last man standing
Friday, August 15, 2014
Kwelagobe
“When my parents worked in South Africa my father, Kgosithebe Rapasela Kwelagobe was a South African Communist Party (SACP) activist whilst my mother, Tlhokomelang Antoinette Kwelagobe was an African National Congress activist (ANC),” states Molepolole South MP Daniel Kwelagobe, the longest serving legislator in the current parliament that dissolves on August 29.
His influence to join politics and in particular the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) that he served selflessly since 1962 came from his parents.
It is a clear signal that the government’s purse is empty and that our own behaviour has left veterinary officials fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. We have been here before. During COVID-19, many of us thought we knew better. We ignored simple rules, we carried on as if the danger was someone else’s problem, and the virus took lives and left our economy on its knees. We are still broke from that experience. Yet now, with FMD...