Editors hail meeting Masisi

With a chequered history that Botswana’s private media and the Office of the President (OP) have for the longest time been like oil and water, with open mistrusts between the parties, last week’s meetings organised by the OP provided a fertile ground for healing the wounds of the past.

It was not surprising that local newspaper Group, CBET, publishers of the Botswana Guardian and its sister publication, The Midweek Sun once took the government to court during the presidency of Festus Mogae, in its endeavour to reverse a blatant case of advertising ban and the newspaper won the case. Victory for the newspapers Group was regarded as a victory for media freedom and freedom of expression. The Botswana High Court had declared the government ban on advertising in two newspapers unconstitutional.