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In this week’s Sunday Standard, under his column “Badge of Courage”, and headlined “The UDC is at risk of being hijacked by former Presdient Dr Khama”, Professor Dipholo writes “At this stage, election matters particularly those relating to petitions and allegations of rigging are considered very sensitive and only those mandated to speak on behalf of their parties must do so and do so in a manner that acknowledges the sensitivity of the issue”. Professor Dipholo’s statement is very unsettling, because it seems to suggest that we, the voters, have no business talking about election irregularities at this stage. A good many voters, possibly the majority are NOT members of political parties. The only time these voters are given a say in the running of their country is at elections. If the elections are rigged, it is the ordinary voter who loses the most because he/she has no other forum to influence the democratic trajectory that his/her country is presumed to follow. That cannot be ri...

One election cycle ago, on 4th December 2014, I posted an article on my blog myikalanga dot blogspot dot com, titled "Boko, Saleshando, Joina should resign" or something to that effect. Note that the said post followed the end of the 2014 elections, and not the recent ones. The results of the recent elections suggest that Dumelang Saleshando to his credit, did something to mitigate the effect of rigging against his party this time around. I therefore withdraw my call to him to resign from leadership of the BCP!

I was going to labour to comment on the just ended General Election, until I came across a post entitled "Our  national anthem expresses national surrender" that I made in my blog 'Myikalanga.blogspot.com' on the 23rd February, 2017. So if you can spare the time, please take a look, and enjoy!

The mainstream press has been peddling a lie to our citizens for the last half century of Independent Botswana's existence. The press claims that "Batswana" (i.e. citizens of our country) want opposition political parties to unite AT ANY COST! In truth no citizen assigns "unity of opposition political parties" a higher priority than a clear definition of what each political party stands for. The Batswana would be quite happy to vote for a party which they believe will better their lives, even if that party was not united with any other opposition political party. The claim that our people want unity of opposition political parties AT ANY COST is propaganga peddled by the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) aligned "mainstream press". One sincerely hopes that the Botswana National Front (BNF) will resuscitate its own printed mouthpiece like it did during the life of Dr. Kenneth Koma, and         counter the money-spinning lies of the BDP aligned "m...