Nitty Gritty
Friday, February 26, 2010
It has been a while since the last Nitty Gritty interview. Once again the fellows of the oblong table have sent me on another assignment to find out more about the state of politics and governance in this continent of Africa.
This time they have sent me out to the island state of a sister African country just off the South Eastern coast of this vast continent. Once again it was not easy getting this interview. I had to deploy all my resources and networks in that small, neglected and sometimes unappreciated pool of entertainers called disc jockeys. To those who don't know what a disc jockey is I will have to start off by telling you what it is not:
“Betrayal hurts, but knowingwho was betraying hurts even more.”- Garima SoniWhat the men of Ditlharapa, Molete and neighbouring villages uncovered is a cross-border enterprise. The modus operandi, as the suspect himself reportedly confessed, is industrial: groups operating in multiple villages, fences cut with impunity, stolen goats walked into South Africa, warehoused at Makhubung, then sold in batches of 200 to a commercial farmer in...