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How Masisi is mismanaging the pandemic

Masisi. PIC PHATSIMO KAPENG
Masisi. PIC PHATSIMO KAPENG

Botswana lacks leadership and policy direction to stop the spread of the coronavirus, argues JOEL KONOPO

In early May, President Mokgweetsi Masisi told a CNN journalist that Botswana was on the 'verge' of becoming the first African country to vaccinate its entire adult population against the deadly coronavirus.

With unbridled optimism, the President lauded the country’s experience fighting pandemics, singling out the spirited battle against HIV/AIDS in the 1990s.

Editor's Comment
Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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