SADC's secret shame: Embers of forgotten conflicts
Friday, September 20, 2019

The Nambian refugees during a previous pretest at SADC. PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES
The trucks that sped out of the Dukwi Refugee Camp on Tuesday and Thursday transporting hundreds of Namibians to their motherland also carried two other things.
One was the fear of refugees returning to an uncertain future, a homeland they left in conflict 20 years ago, fleeing to safety through crocodile infested waters in Chobe District to Dukwi.
It is also hurting that whilst we all know that the Botswana Police Service (BPS) is charged functionally with the duties to investigate all forms of crime, some locals have resorted to taking the law into their own hands. It is very wrong to do that. There is also a possibility that one may wrongfully take the life of a person in the process, unless it is a justifiable case of self-defence. Recently, in the city of Francistown, some locals found...