Botswana: Unbending Mogae Rule of Law

Gaborone — Former president, Dr Festus Mogae, who passed away last Friday, was a man who bent for no one: not international outcry, not public sympathy, nor political pressure. The economist-turned-politician took tough decisions, backed by the law, and lived by the creed that law is law is law.

BOPA reporter, Bonang Masolotate, writes that Dr Mogae, first an economist then a politician, will have history judge him as a legalist whose back folks could not easily ride.

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