Botswana: Power Profits and Prescriptions

Gaborone — On a Thursday evening, Minister of Health Dr Stephen Modise walked into the BTV studio to address the nation.

He appeared composed, almost Zen-like. This was striking for a man widely known within political circles as The Hurricane: restless, kinetic, always in motion. On this night, however, the storm had slowed. The posture was calm. The language measured. The reassurance deliberate.

But the 30-something-year-old minister is burdened with a crisis that did not begin with him, nor…