Matsha Secondary School tragedy.

When tragedy on the scale of the Matsha Secondary School truck accident that killed seven of our kids strikes, the nation needs to come together, for the simple reason that it must never ever be allowed to happen again. Coming together means we need to find out what we did wrong, or the measures we failed to take, leading to the tragedy.

The trajedy needs to be taken away from the realm of politics - no amount of headbutts and/or fists will tell us what happenned. Only a Judicial commission of enquiry would tell us that. And this is where national magnanimity comes in - A e nne modiga, Be-Shashe. I will explain the "Be-Shashe" in a later post. For now please read it as "Batswana".

And so I call upon President Dr. Ian Khama and the Judicial Service Commission, to appoint attorney Omphemetse Motumise as judge on a temporary basis, to head a judicial inquiry into the Matsha School accident. I call upon Rre Motumise, as a lawyer of high integrity, familiar with the Kgalagadi terrain and people, to accept such an appointment. I call upon the people of this country to give all concerned, the latitude to make the judicial inquiry a success!