Elecetera II

Opening Up, Developing And Closing
A week for anyone spent with flu-like symptoms is bound to be disrupting which may explain why I begin this week's contribution backwards with a belated farewell to Molemane Molefe of Mochudi who died recently.

On and off, I have known Molemane for many years, latterly as a valued member of the Board of the Phuthadikobo Museum. He was like so many of that older generation, a lovely person. With that obligation fulfilled, there were several very different items that did catch my attention. One was the news that Kenya Airways is developing its connections between this country and Nairobi which might, just might bring down the cost of flights to almost everywhere else in the world.

But as week follows week of the BMC enquiry, and one remarkable revelation follows another and with accusations flowing thick and fast, two key figures are yet to appear namely Mr Nilsson, if I am correct, and Mr D. Falepau although by now the Commission must have seen everybody here worth seeing, some of them twice, and visited all the varied places  around the world with banks holding BMC accounts. Surely by now it must have been a simple matter to discover which individuals opened those accounts, when and even why? And surely by now we should have been given the names of the people who have been BMC Board members over, say the last five years, and not just a chance name here and there?  But then no newspaper, as far as I could pick up, was able to report on the cleaning up, upgrading and repainting of the hugely controversial multi-purpose building in the centre of Mochudi.

Editor's Comment
Closure as pain lingers

March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...

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