Mogae spoke of people bent on making things difficult for Vice President Ian Khama and said such people "will not manage". The President was particularly angry with people who sent vitriolic articles, critical of the government of the day to newspapers, using pseudonyms. He said this was particularly disturbing because there was no truth in what such people wrote. "They are people in the (political) opposition at the University of Botswana who write letters to newspapers and use false names like Peter Mogae, while saying untrue things about the government and certain individuals," the President said, adding that he knew who the culprits were.
Mogae, who seemed considerably troubled by the issue, said if the government wanted to, it could easily go to court and force the papers to release the names of such correspondents. "It is not that we do not know who they are. E bile ga ke ne ke sa bue mo kgotleng, ke kabo ke mo roga. (And If I wasn't speaking in the kgotla, I would swear at them.) We know that even when they use false names, the papers have their real names."
