Shashe

 One reason why the civil service is so inefficient and not customer-centric is because officials occupy offices that they are not qualified for. This is especially true for high level officials such as permanent secretaries, directors etc. Most of these officers are political appointees. A political appointee does not have to be a card-carrying member of any political party; all they have to do is to consistently wear the colours of the ruling party. I don’t know if that practice continues even after the change of government from the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) to the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC).  Under the BDP rule, even President Ian Khama kept a watch on peoples’ wardrobes! I find it hard to believe that his wardrobe monitoring only applied to politicians, and not to civil servants and the general public. You see, the practice of civil servants identifying with the ruling party in dress code has a demoralizing effect on the real hardworking lot who believe in ...

Still on the allegation of our former president (F-resident) Masisi having a foul/vulgar mouth, it’s worth bearing in my mind that the tribe of which he is a part, call themselves “The Akkadians of Ms. Naana” ( Bakgatla ba ga Manaana ). Their village in Botswana is Moshupa , as I have indicated in my post headed “Poor Mosau”. Many years back I postulated that the Ms. Naana is actually the Anunnaki goddess Inanna. Well, Sargon ( S’aRogana ) the Great was a faithful servant of Inanna, as we all know. Inanna’s exploits with the likes of Shulgi ( Shutji in Kalanga) is well known. No need to belabour the point. But that is what gives the village of Moshupa its name. The name is a Kalanga word, corrupted by Sumerian as are many words from that area of the Middle East. Moshupa is the one place name best left UNCHANGED back into its original Kalanga form. It means, simply, “Cuntie”! And so there really shouldn’t be anything considered alarming about f-resident Masisi’s rather vulgar pronoun...