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And so we have been reminded, thanks to attorney Rantao's social media posts that for the last ten years our parliament knew that the constitutional provision that ushered in former presidents Mogae and Khama is flawed. Attorney Ndulamo Morima has followed up with revelation that then Attorney general, Dr. Atalia Molokomme conceded that the relevant section of the consitution needed to be amended TEN long years ago, when Khama became president. This was TEN long years after Mogae became president through the same constitutional provision. And yet the offending constitutional provision remains intact to this day. No amendment has been made. This begs the question: what have our elected members of Parliament been doing for at least the last ten years? Why do they think they deserve to be sent back to Parliament in 2019? It is bad enough that the offending constitutional provision is an assault on our democracy - a president appoints his own successor, who comes with full executive ...

I mean here is a guy, on the eve of his becoming president, and he comes wearing the most ridiculous looking cap bedecked with medals; an absolute cartoonists paradise, surpassed if at all, only by Jean Bedell Bokasa's coat! And guess what, it's been two months now that he has been making decisions affecting all our lives, and not one cartoon of him wearing that ridiculous hat has appeared in the mainline press. All we get are almost exact replicas of his photoshoots, or selfies as they are called nowadays! Come on guys what do you think we live in - a Banana republic or what?

When the gods genetically re-engineered man, they allocated man to work-groups which we call tribes/nations today. Man was insulated from the political alignments of the gods. Man was just a worker who had to be protected from being swamped by Homo Naledi.Such was the community that lived on and around Mapungubwe hill. Some guards (Balindi/Balete) were placed at the top of the hill, while others were deployed at the bottom. The principal responsibility of the guards on the hill-top was to drop (ku liga) rocks on any enemy who might have breached the lower defences. Consequently the hill-top guards became known as "the droppers" (Baka Chiliga) [Boo Seleka in Setswana] Totems were assigned by the gods mostly to differentiate one work-group from another, but also to give humanity the upper hand in the survival stakes vis-a-vis Homo Naledi. The totems were mostly in the form of some animal that the assigned group was not allowed to eat or even touch. In the human survival sta...

Is "Israel" a Kalanga language phrase "Isi Ra, El" or a Sumerian language phrase "I-sira El"? First let us note that in both languages the word "El" means "god Enlil" and it is pronounced as "Ilo". Let us also note that ancient Sumerian language has undergone changes to become several languages - Coptic, Arabic, Sotho, Tswana. In this piece I refer to the Sumerian language as Tswana. The Kalanga phrase "Isi Ra, El" means "Not Ra, but Enlil". The Tswana phrase "I-sira El" means "It protects Enlil". I believe that the origin of the word "Israel" is the Kalanga phrase. Some wriiters including Zecharia Sitchin, I am told, hold that "Israel" originates from the Tswana phrase. They say that "protection of the god Enlil" means protection of the ancient space port in Sinai peninsula against capture by the forces of the Egyptian god Marduk. This protection was pr...