Mother�s Day: Calling all angels
Friday, May 06, 2016
Motherly love: Mothers are the cornerstone of the family
The country’s history, scarcely recorded as it is in books, is largely that of men, their achievements, their failures and their contributions.
It is written and reported from the point of view of men, local and foreign. From the Three Chiefs, to the founding ‘fathers’, to the breadwinners who worked the mines in South Africa, men dominate the narrative.
That a single private law firm pocketed P6.5 million for just four cases, out of a total P11.1 million paid for 25 matters, reeks of a system that was not merely disorganised but open to abuse.Bayford has taken a welcome first step by telling the Public Accounts Committee the truth. Now he must act decisively to ensure it never happens again and that any money lost to wrongdoing is recovered.The figures are staggering. Whilst ordinary Batswana...