A requiem for MK
Friday, April 12, 2024 | 90 Views |
Dingake FILE: PIC
‘MK’ was such a principled political giant who was extremely down to earth and humble. He was well read and scholarly especially in the area of politics.
He was also a true revolutionary and patriotic of our beloved Republic of Botswana. In 1995, Dingake, and legislators Thebe David Mogami, Modibedi Robi (late) and I were privileged to go on a three-week study tour to learn about the American democratic system, under the sponsorship of the USAID. Our tour took us to Washington DC, Harrisberg, Pennsylvania, North Carolina Raleigh, Sacramento and San Francisco in California.
Our weekly edition carries painful articles of people being murdered. Whilst some are classified as Gender Based Violence (GBV), there are still a large percentage of murder cases, which often happen at drinking spots, after people are heavily intoxicated. We have in the past carried articles where an individual was murdered because they refused to give someone a cigarette, and sadly this is where we are at now!In this very edition, there is an...