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Following the enactment of the anti floor-crossing law, Lediretse Molake went to great lengths to show why, in his opinion, the law is unconstitutional. Lay people like me read Molake's contribution. We then waited with baited breadth to read what the opposition political collective, or the bevy of powerful lawyers in the opposition parties would say to either buttress or rebuff Lediretse Molake's views. Indeed I expected the opposition parties to either take the government to court, or at the very least to put out a statement explaining why such a move would have no prospects for success in a court of law. Nothing of the sort crossed my path. Admittedly, there may have been some discussions in social media, to which I do not subscribe, but a statement in the newspaper would have been a way of reaching the widest possible readership. Since the publishing of Molake's article, I have been convinced that other politically active or aware entities would one day put the record s...

I wonder if the envisaged constitutional review encompasses possible change of our country's name. It is really hard to understand how non-Tswana tribes have been able to tolerate the Tribalist name of our country "Botswana" for so long. It is even more surprising when you consider that the Tswana tribes, who originally comprised of only a handful of Anunnaki workgroup types - BangwaAto; BangwaKhwizi; BaKuina are essentially foreigners in this country - they being former residents of Nkami ruins near Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. Every time a non-Tswana raises the subject of Tswana hegemony in our country, the Tswana threaten "Rwanda-like" genocide to cow us down. Why should we care if the Tswana resort to "Rwanda-like" genocide? Why should we continue to let the Tswana deny the rest of the tribes their cultural identities? Why should we continue to allow the Tswana to deny us even the use of our languages in the air waves at tax payer's expense when we co...

 Is corruption a form of looting or is looting a form of corruption? Since practice of the two is so widespread in Africa, does any African university offer either or both courses as core subjects? If none does is it any wonder then that African universities are generally rated rather lowly?