The UDC SONA explainer
Friday, November 14, 2025 | 140 Views |
Boko and UDC members. PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO
This SONA is a masterpiece. In many ways, it’s better than the first one in November 2024.
Why was it a masterpiece and better, one might ask? It was a masterpiece because it was comprehensive. It was concrete, showing facts on what has been achieved, failed to be achieved, challenges, and what solutions have been formulated to address challenges going forward. And this SONA is relevant to the country and Batswana’s needs. And finally, it was balanced with facts, targets, and timelines, which we all want to hear, see and ultimately feel. It was not empty rhetoric and sloganeering that the green and red Opposition - the (Legapu coalition) of the BCP and BDP are best at.
‘When you make peace withyourself, you make peace with the world’- Maha GhosanandaThis may come at a huge cost if not handled properly. What started off on Labour Day in Letlhakane this year, where Boko was in attendance when the militant lawyer-cum-trade unionist, Robert Rabasimane rebutted the President’s address in defence of the trade union has seemingly spiralled out of control. The issue is now creating a cat-and-mouse type of a...