Hardly a month after former president, Festus Mogae, belched balls of belly fire about Botswana becoming less hospitable than it used to be, a report prepared for the British High Commission reveals that such sentiment is shared by some other people in the country.
Telling Botswana’s rags-to-riches story at the Africa Leadership Forum in Tanzania on July 31, Mogae said the country prospered because it recognised the need for symbiotic existence with others.
“We used professionals from all countries, including Tanzania here and we trained our people here, and in South Africa and in Nigeria and in Ghana but that is being reversed by our government,” said the former president, at one point referring to his successor’s government with “regime”, a term characteristically used to refer to autocratic administrations…
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