The failing and collapsing economy has proven to be Khama's Achilles' heel. The government of Khama by Khama and for Khama indeed! For almost 47years now, it has become music to our ears to hear sources from all over the world, including the dysfunctional Southern African Development Community (SADC), heaping praise on the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) government for 'prudent' economic management. Our cabinet ministers, who have been turned into instruments of praise, travel the length and breadth of this country singing the chorus of poverty eradication.
They are just a group of elites who move around telling the poor, the illiterate and the downtrodden, especially in rural areas, about Botswana's superior economic performance wholly attributing that success to prudent economic housekeeping and visionary leadership of the ruling regime.What these cabinet ministers are failing to reveal in their stage-managed kgotla meetings is the root cause of poverty. Our population is just too small, far less than the population of Soweto in South Africa, and it surprises one as to why everyone in a small population of just two million cannot live a decent life.
