Monday, February 28, 2005

Botswana lecturer wins reprieve

Botswana lecturer wins reprieve

A Botswana court allows an Australian professor and government critic to stay in the country for now.

URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/africa/4304373.stm
Now, when even the few countries that we uphold in the continent for their democratic and freedom-oriented policies, start acting up against freedom of expression like this, it makes one wonder where the @#$@&&@$ we are going! If President Mogae does not believe he is heading a bunch of elitist and classist bourgeois, he should prove it, like every body else. Not use his presidential powers to try yo silence opinions!

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