Slumber Tsogwane's hour of ascent

13:51 Tsogwane arrives at Parliament with his former Assistant Minister at Local Government and Rural Development Botlogile Tshireletso
13:51 Tsogwane arrives at Parliament with his former Assistant Minister at Local Government and Rural Development Botlogile Tshireletso

On April 4, 2018, MP for Boteti West Slumber Tsogwane walked into parliament as an ordinary MP and former Minister of Local Government and Rural Development during Ian Khama's Cabinet, but hardly an hour later he left the House as Botswana's 9th Vice President with a security detail, Photojournalist THALEFANG CHARLES chronicles Tsogwane's hour of ascent

Editor's Comment
The State apparatus must be sanitised

When the State cannot rely on its own machinery to pursue suspected wrongdoing, repairing that machinery must become a national priority.The establishment of a Special Investigations and Asset Recovery Task Force may help government respond to the immediate challenge. However, Botswana cannot afford to leave the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) struggling whilst building...

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