Khama freezes Parliament
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

President Khama: The Attorney General's submission says proceeding would cause a Constitutional crisis PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
The development comes after President Ian Khama effectively froze today’s scheduled opening of Parliament by withholding a proclamation he issues allowing for the swearing in of members and the commencement of sitting.
Khama’s freezing of Parliament has heightened speculation around the identity of his preferred Vice President, whom some critics believe he wants endorsed by a show of hands in order to ensure allegiance among ruling party members. The High Court case is the latest round of a battle in which Khama wants the Standing Orders changed back to a vote “by show of hands”. Legislators changed the standing order to secret ballot just before dissolution in August, but Khama’s lawyers, Collins Newman and Company, hit back recently.
Our youth are perishing; their once hopeful bright future is going down the drain; all because of illicit drugs.It is very easy to blame the addict, but it is not as simple as that! Drug dealing is a very lucrative business for some shameless people amongst our society and as such they have come up with tight strategies on how to push their business.Drug addiction is bad, and while the individual on drugs sometimes might have been the one who...