Spectacular climax in President�s Day competitions
Friday, July 25, 2014
In the background, five giant television screens beamed Botswana’s success stories in silent motion at the Gaborone International Convention Centre. The videos showed Botswana’s first President Sir Seretse Khama, the diamond story, the beauty of the country’s flora and fauna, and the coming of age of a nation from an agrarian society.
The directors had also put together a highly talented band of players of all kinds of musical instruments, from stinkane to segaba, as they fused the traditional music instruments with modern music culture to amazing effects.
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...