Solomon vs Tafa: the preview
Friday, June 06, 2008

Boxers are fond of scuffles before the main event. The press conference raucous may be meaningless to the untrained eye but to those steeped in the psychology of competition the skirmish is as important as the fight itself. It is said it is through that mad swirl of the boxers and their posse that one would know how the fight might unfold.
The corruption case against former Managing Director of Debswana, Louis Nchindo, and former senior members of Debswana Management Joe Matome, Jacob Sesinyi and Nchindo's son Louis Garvas Nchindo may have not started but it has really started.
Particular trepidations lie with the seemingly embedded nature of embellishing tender sums, in most cases without the barest minimum of authority. The worrying thing is that the inflated amounts run into millions of pula across the government ministries and departments. The Auditor General’s report of March ending 2022, which we cover extensively in this edition, paints a gloomy picture on management of the government coffers. It depicts the...