President warns against ethnicity

In what was a clear reference to the standoff between Bakgatla royalty and the government in his State of the Nation address in Parliament yesterday, Khama said while people may celebrate diversity and mobilise initiatives at community level, it should always be remembered that "as Batswana, we have one country, one citizenship which should always come first".

"While we can be united in our diversity, we cannot be divided in our civic and legal obligations to the nation," he said.