Botswana’s smooth democratic image nearly cracked in the 1990s. Behind the scenes, the then ruling BDP was locked in a brutal succession war that would eventually produce President Festus Mogae.
It started with a land scandal.
In 1991, allegations of irregular land allocations in Mogoditshane triggered a commission of inquiry appointed by President Ketumile Masire.
The findings rocked the political establishment.
@RediTlhabi Masterclass in Diplomatic language with a smattering of wit and sarcasm. You really need to be awake to catch the nuance. Most of the MAGA crowd were giving standing ovation not realised some of what the King said was a dig at them 😂
Size matters. Congrats Togo at UN and others seeking to reform the way the world sees Africa on current maps as small and insignificant, the size of Greenland or US including Alaska. This perception has profound psychological impact abetting the dismissal of Africa as unimportant
Writing gurus : "Write short sentences and don't use big words"
Charles Dickens in the first sentence of Oliver Twist:
"Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born - on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events - the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.