Let love lead
Friday, January 13, 2017
If you are into history ,then A United Kingdom might just be the energiser for your old-school taste buds. This film caused a stir when it first hit the screens two months back in October 2016 at New Capitol cinemas to a selected few that included President Ian Khama.
It caused frenzy with expensive P1,000 single premiere ticket sales that swung the weight to the brim as more enthusiasts began to eagerly queue up for the December premiere with raging anticipation. Finally the show is here, and in this story love breaking all barriers becomes the focal area of attention. Events begin to unfold because of this catalyst Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana, causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s at the time when colonisation was still dominant in Africa.
That a single private law firm pocketed P6.5 million for just four cases, out of a total P11.1 million paid for 25 matters, reeks of a system that was not merely disorganised but open to abuse.Bayford has taken a welcome first step by telling the Public Accounts Committee the truth. Now he must act decisively to ensure it never happens again and that any money lost to wrongdoing is recovered.The figures are staggering. Whilst ordinary Batswana...