How DIS defeated DCEC
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Exactly two years ago, nearly to the year, an Uzi was pulled up against some man’s head, the trigger pulled, the bullet sent into the body. The bullet dealt with the physiology the way a bullet is manufactured to. The man was Malawian-born businessman Harry Tembo, otherwise known as Harrison Tembo, and the place was the upmarket suburb of Phakalane in the north of Gaborone.
The use of the Israeli manufactured weapon struck security experts as interesting. Uzis are seldom used in the security sector in Botswana, and it is often associated with officials higher up in the security sector. If an Uzi is to be used, then a senior official better be holding it, and if a mortal being is to wield it at the minimum, permission would have come from some place a bit more hallowed.
‘When you make peace withyourself, you make peace with the world’- Maha GhosanandaThis may come at a huge cost if not handled properly. What started off on Labour Day in Letlhakane this year, where Boko was in attendance when the militant lawyer-cum-trade unionist, Robert Rabasimane rebutted the President’s address in defence of the trade union has seemingly spiralled out of control. The issue is now creating a cat-and-mouse type of a...