In the run-up to the Botswana elections last week there was naturally much sabre-rattling from the opposition parties trying to make inroads into the ruling Botswana Democratic Party’s 53-year-old sway over the country.
This hegemony is remarkable and unusual in Africa because the 12 elections Botswana has held so far have been successful without a whiff of electoral impropriety...
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