MmaMoitoi Got A Taste Of Own Medicine

Unless something drastic happens and President Mokgweetsi Masisi calls early elections, we are six months away to the polls. As per the dictates of the constitution, Botswana goes to the general elections every five years, in the month of October.

So we are six months to electing the next government. Even with unsatisfactory number of registered voters, just over 700,000, we will be at the polls to elect our parliamentarians, and councillors, and thus giving them a mandate to choose the President and council chairpersons and mayors.

As with recent election years, this year had its own fair share of drama, even more so than in previous ones.

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Bravo police for prompt action

It is also hurting that whilst we all know that the Botswana Police Service (BPS) is charged functionally with the duties to investigate all forms of crime, some locals have resorted to taking the law into their own hands. It is very wrong to do that. There is also a possibility that one may wrongfully take the life of a person in the process, unless it is a justifiable case of self-defence. Recently, in the city of Francistown, some locals found...

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