'You give Good too much credit'
Thursday, March 25, 2010
You did so without disassociating your newspaper from Professor Good's comments and failed to distance your newspaper from his vitriolic remarks.
I do not understand why we continue to provide a platform for Dr Good to launch yet another barrage of attacks on Botswana, in general, and on our elected leaders, in particular. What did Botswana do to provoke such a vicious and unprofessional attempt to vilify it? Why do Dr Good's former academic colleagues at UB not seek to present a more balanced view of recent developments? Let me try.
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...