Let's Treat Each Other With Respect

The highly anticipated Botswana Democratic Party’s (BDP) Kang congress has come and gone, and proceedings were reportedly peaceful, which in itself is indeed commendable. A lot happened in the past few months, especially with regards to the historical presidential race between Member of Parliament for Serowe South, Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi and President Mokgweetsi Masisi.

For the past weeks print media had screaming headlines on the BDP presidential race, and they as would be expected created a lot of buzz on social media, and opened up debate amongst citizens, which is a welcome development.

While some gave good analysis on the situation and offered constructive arguments, there are still those who restricted themselves to hurling insults at either Venson-Moitoi or President Masisi.  The larger proportion of those who chose to deviate from healthy debate and resort to insults was sadly the youth. 

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