UB strike

Riot police
Riot police

Riot police had to be called in this afternoon as UB students started a violent strike at their main campus over allowances. They burnt zebras statue with Botswana flags and threatened to destroy more property if they are not paid their overdue student allowances.

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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