The gloom surrounding Botswana’s Diamond Jubilee :: Mmegi Online

Sixty years later, the firmament bearing Botswana’s testimony should not simply be a tale of diamonds not selling and our fortunes being at risk of submerging to a great economic storm. Rather our countrymen must walk chest out proud of the spoils of war from past crusades and those that are to come writes TIMOTHY LEWANIKA

Next month, Botswana will reach a milestone few a nations have achieved, an independence Diamond Jubilee reached with no stone thrown or blood dropped in civil wars or fight over national resources. The challenges surmounted by those who have treaded this ground before us, are worthy of a feast stretching for days.

There is a particular danger in judging Botswana exclusively through the lens of today's economy because, historically, the very existence of a modern Botswana economy is itself an extraordinary development.

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