A shameful revelation of the African leadership deception

The death of the 34 Mineworkers and several others at the hands of the trigger happy South African riot Police gun fire at Marikana Platinum Mine has shocked all of us.  It is all too sad that the Police Spokesperson has angrily described the workers as " ... hard-core criminals who murder Police" [Associated Press], an utterance which would only be-tolerated under the former white apartheid regime.

It may well be that this Police violence against labour is orchestrated to destroy the image of the NUM and obliterate the good work you have done in the last 30 years.  We in Botswana cannot be fooled by such unwarranted brutal attack on workers struggling to get out of slums, poverty, poor health care and low quality education.