The Platform

What Happens When Democracy Works

All are held accountable by the laws. No one is above the law.

‘We find evidence of a political leadership that for the last 30 years, has increasingly fallen into the clutches of an underperforming public service that has grown more robust in obstruction than in productivity. We find an evolving culture of a democratically elected but increasingly pliable political leadership of the last three decades, held to ransom by groups of abrasive technocrats in low productivity mode, albeit with rising incidences of corruption. It is in our introspection that we find entrenched interests causing economic exclusion and denigration of our people, indigenous Batswana in particular, who are the lowest in the food chain, so to speak...’
While there have been some notably positive outcomes, a litany of unfinished or poorly executed projects fills the development road maps of the last 30 years like leaky sacksful of dirt on a neglected road. The mindset of our people has been pulverised by such negativity that a cancerous inferiority complex thwarts the ambitions of young and old. Truth be told, we have as a nation excluded ourselves from our own development.’