When two elephants fight it's the grass that suffers

The Setswana proverb that when two elephants fight it is the grass that suffers, seems to hold true for the events that are unfolding at the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) sparked by the resignation of its chairperson Justice John Mosojane of which as IEC staff we were not informed about (resignation) only to hear of it in the private media.

Even the Political parties who are IEC major stakeholders heard it through the media.

In all this fight of elephants (permanent Secretary to President/chairperson and secretary of IEC) which manifested itself in the media the grass (staff) have been suffering in silence as if they do not know what is happening.

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