‘Journalists have a duty to protect the honour and integrity of the fourth estate’ – Sello Motseta

For the first time at a MISA-Botswana AGM I witnessed scenes reminiscent of a barroom melee.

Young, inebriated students led by Spike Ganetsang and Philemon Mmeso, transported in combi’s to vote for a candidate who contrary to ‘our value system’ holds political office.

These potential voters arrived late for the AGM because they were allegedly eating breakfast and we waited patiently for them to arrive.

Spencer Mogapi, Outsa Mokone and Emang Bokhutlo went AWOL as we faced a fracas the nature of which we had not witnessed in the fraternity.

I was also surprised by the number of state...