Kgosi Sechele I Museum keeps its head above water
Friday, February 18, 2011
Like every Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), the museum depends on donor funding. However, donors have been hard to come by, since Botswana was declared a mid income country in the mid 90s.
But lack of funds has never deterred the cultural activists who are behind the museum.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...