Another fallacy

New Year, new beginnings? Does a one-night calendar transition change it all? It doesn’t! A new year is supposed to usher opportunities for change – a fresh outlook and evaluation of direction. Fifty two years post-independence we are none the wiser.

This will be yet another delusion, full of drama. To know where you are going, you want to look at where you have been. To introspect and reflect of past failures. To draw lessons on successes. 2018 served a myriad of possibilities. Chart-topping was mass expectations as Ian Khama ceded the presidency to Mokgweetsi Masisi. Doubting Thomases could not for a moment believe it was the end of the Super’s reign. But was it?

When President Ian Khama poured rivers of money. Those with gigantic appetite to eat imbibed emphatically. The guzzling was huge it will take Olympic proportions of embezzlement to match the worst governance standards that characterise Khama’s legacy. Corruption Perception targets by Transparency International tumbled with Botswana slipping from 2nd to 5th in the Ibrahim Index of African Governance between 2008 and 2017.

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Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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