A jungle called Lesotho
Friday, January 22, 2016

As the Southern African Development Community(SADC) Double Troika Summit met this week in Gaborone to discuss the political and security situation in Lesotho, opposition leaders were also busy lobbying for the return of the rule of law in their country.
All Basotho Convention (ABC), Basotho National Party (BNP) and Reformed Congress of Lesotho (RCL) members sent representatives to Gaborone to present to the delegates their plea as important stakeholders. Speaking on behalf of the three parties, the BNP deputy leader Joang Molapo said they represent a sizable and important portion of the people of Lesotho.
For a fact, in a democratic society such as Botswana, the media plays a crucial role of being watchdog, holding the powerful to account and exposing all possible wrongdoing for the benefit of the public.There has been a nagging question about who watches the watchdog after all? Perhaps, the investigations into alleged wrongful acts implicating those supposed to be playing the watchdog role will shed more light into what has happened such that the...