Khama danced on Motswaledi�s grave even before he was buried

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This past week The Business Weekly and Review published a story detailing a leaked plan of assassinations in this country.

The article published the story linking it to the death of Gomolemo Motswaledi whose death is still shrouded in mystery. Assassinations are the leading method of getting rid of political opponents and this has been used for centuries and it seems this is bound to continue for as long as politicians are poised to oppose each other. Those open to the vices of assassination include among others criminal gang leaders, political dissidents, business opponents and opinion writers like me.

One of the things that occur regularly the world over that many of us are oblivious to and yet it holds a great significance and bearing in the lives of our political leaders of all sorts and kind is assassinations. Political assassinations have happened even in the Bible days as we read the story Amnon, son of King David who was killed by the servants of Absalom his brother after raping his half-sister named Tamar. Later on it emerged that Absalom himself was assassinated by Joab, the Commander of David’s army.

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Who watches the watchdog?

For a fact, in a democratic society such as Botswana, the media plays a crucial role of being watchdog, holding the powerful to account and exposing all possible wrongdoing for the benefit of the public.There has been a nagging question about who watches the watchdog after all? Perhaps, the investigations into alleged wrongful acts implicating those supposed to be playing the watchdog role will shed more light into what has happened such that the...

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