Our Heritage
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Were we serious about such matters, a Boipuso museum would long ago have been established in Gaborone which have explained for everyone, local, expats and tourists precisely how this country, set by step, attained its Independence in 1966.
Seemingly the idea has no appeal - which is about as baffling as it can get. But now that the Motswaledi affair, not least, has prompted so many doubts and criticisms about the current Constitution, with fairly wild ideas having been recently expressed about British deviousness in its formulation, and with reiterated calls for a total review, it may be the time to go back to the base documents to note, not least, who represented this country and thus supposedly made such a mess of things.
With his theme of 'Delivering on Our Promise, One Step at a Time', he sought to project an image of a focused, determined leader building a new ‘Rome’. Sadly, parts of his speech were not about laying bricks, but about settling old scores.It is deeply worrying that a head of government would use such a pivotal national address to launch another bitter broadside against the media and his political detractors. His portrayal of the...