Revealed: Khama's stranglehold grip on tourism

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The ruling elite with President Ian Khama at the centre and a few foreigners has created a web of business interests around Botswana's most valuable tourist areas, from the Okavango to the Kalahari Central Game Reserve.

 The web welds family and friends together in one impenetrable group. Mmegi's investigations tracing the business interests of Directorate of Intelligence and Security boss, Isaac Kgosi have inadvertently led to Wilderness Safaris, a company with connections to almost every member of the ruling elite, family and their friends.

The Khama that emerges is more than a conservationist but rather a keen investor in tourism, with an ever-widening web of business interests in the sector. For example, the President shares business interests with a well-known wildlife filmmaker, Dereck Joubert, to whom he gave a Presidential Award for his wildlife filmmaking.  Khama was a business partner of Dereck's older brother, Keith Eric Joubert who died last January.

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Justice served, but healing must follow

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