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A funny old illegal world

Credit for the title's source is duly given to Mrs. Margaret Thatcher on her departure to give her resignation to the Queen, as reported by the BBC. I have just read an article titled "The myth of the Masisi-Khama feud" in the latest Sunday Standard newspaper. The author of the article is not revealed. My views that the Khama-Masisi feud is NOT real have not changed. I still believe it is a ruse to hoard news space by the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP, aka Domi). That said, I agree completely with the author of the Sunday Standard article. But the author made one big mistake: in his/her zeal to show how former president Ian Khama broke the law, and how President Mokgweetsi Masisi is merely applying the law, the author ignores a vital piece of information reported elsewhere in the same paper. Just two pages prior, in a report titled "Francistown land scam syndicate slapped with heavy penalties", Joseph Balise quotes High Court Judge Lot Moroka (in p...