Masisi's speech gets lukewarm reception

When it was announced that President Masisi was scheduled to give a national address on Tuesday, discussions and assumptions emerged within the public as to what exactly he was going to talk about. His scheduled address raised anxiety. With the current state of affairs, Batswana could be excused for pre-empting the President’s speech. It had to be about COVID-19, more specifically the vaccination plan.

Masisi’s posture during the national address pretty much summed up everything. How else would one explain what was lacklustre address in what was expected to be his ‘major’ speech on the current COVID-19 crisis. Let’s start with the fact that many thought much of Masisi’s speech especially in the wake of alarming cases of COVID-19 this week.