SADC leaders snub Bot50 party
Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Independence Day VVIP during the singing of National Anthem PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES
While the event attracted high-ranking dignitaries from the United States and Britain, Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders were nowhere to be seen at the country’s highly publicised event.
For a highly decorated country with a lot of enviable titles, among them the Africa’s diamond nation and shining example of democracy, expectations were that African statesmen, especially from SADC would descend on Gaborone en-masse in honour of Botswana’s enviable track record. However, that was not the case and the Presidents decided to stay home with some mysteriously withdrawing at the 11th hour, among them Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...