Questioning the bulging BDF leadership

Botswana Defence Force (BDF) is a modest military machine which is well trained and somewhat sufficiently resourced.

This military organisation has exercised itself professionally in their past international assignments and in many ways excelled beyond expectations of their Western counterparts. These assignments included UN Peacekeeping role and different joint military exercises.

For any military organisation, it is the leadership that matters the most. Leadership pilot the ship in the direction that they would like it to go. It is the leadership that navigates through calm and rough seas and we all expect them to succeed in that role.

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Human rights are sacred

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...

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