Sleep well my brother Eddie Kuhlmann
Friday, August 18, 2017
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Kuhlmann PIC: COURTESY OF SUNDAY STANDARD
I am talking about our formative years, both as journalists and media houses, which were also still in their formative stages. Those were truly humble beginnings when newspapers that I found running were The Botswana Gazette, Mmegi and The Botswana Guardian.
The Guardian and The Gazette appeared to be better resourced with a good advertising while Mmegi was all grey with a lot of text that was mostly unsupported by advertisements.
The BDP as a party known to have ample resources has always held its primaries well in time, but this time around that was not the case. The first leg of the primaries was held last weekend, with the final leg being billed for the coming weekend. This time around, the BDP failed to shine in its primary elections. The elections were chaotic; most if not all polling stations didn't open at the specified time of 6am. Loyal BDP members braved the...