Botswana: Masisi's Error of Judgment

editorial

By the next update from the Presidential Covid-19 Task Force around 500 Batswana would have succumbed to the dreaded pandemic, while thousands others would have added to the 33 429 positive cases reported on Thursday night.

We watch with trepidation as our people perish while the Head of State, fully armed with a State of Public Emergency (SoPE) presumably obtained to wrestle the invisible enemy, goes gallivanting around the continent. We shudder to imagine the possibility that President Mokgweetsi Masisi is on a whirlwind tour of countries primarily to market the Permanent Secretary in his Office Elias Magosi, as the best man to take control at SADC House in August. We hope not!

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