Shashe

We are less than two weeks from the impending general elections, 2019. During the last general elections in 2014 there were several observer missions, if I recall correctly. Of particular note was the election observer mission from the African Union/Commission which was led by former president of Malawi, Dr. Joyce Banda. Dr. Banda's mission issued a report containing some recommendations at the end of their observation of our general elections. My first question is directed at the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) of our country: Which of the missions recommendations have been implemented for this year's elections, and which, if any, have not? Why have any not been implemented? My second question is directed at all the candidates in this year's elections: Before you registered as a candidate did you have the answers to the question above? If not, is that because you don't care or because you were not even aware that any recommendations were made by said Dr. B...

The chickens are coming home to roost; and what an awful din! Fifty-seven years ago the British colonialists created a political party in then Bechuanaland Protectorate to secure British interests after "independence" of the protectorate. They called that party "the Bechuanaland Democratic Party (BDP)". It has remained the ruling party ever since, even as we are heading for a general election in a couple weeks' time. The BDP hijacked what was up till then a Kalanga country into a Tswana tribal enclave. Without a drop of shame, the British allowed the Tswana tribe to exercise unbridled hegemony over all other tribes of the Kalanga nation. Now a Tswana speaking tribe, the BeHakata (Bakgatla) wants out of our nation. The BeHakata are the original sorcerers/healers. Interestingly this tribe was one of the last tribes to be converted from Kalanga to Tswana. For the rest of us onlookers, it is going to be very interesting to see how the BDP and their British colonial...