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The real dispute between the BDP leadership and myself is our competing versions of the nature of this country. I say it's a Republic. I say it's a democracy.

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Botswana is emerging from a 'national shutdown'.

Reforming the African Union, will open great opportunities in areas of trade, employment and economic growth in Africa.

It got me thinking about the issue on a broader scale, How do you retain a cultural identity, which everyone says is a good thing, without being isolated.

It is a people saying in essence: "Our way of life may be different, but it is worthy of respect.

There is no doubt that we always feel under assault, culturally that is, especially in terms of music, food, clothing.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

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