Our National Anthem expresses national surrender!

The Earth which we as a species inhabit, is not a gift from God. Rather, it is we as a species that are a gift to the Earth from God. The “country” that is known as “Botswana” is not a gift from God. It is a piece of Earth that for thousands of years, we have successfully defended against marauding rhinoceroses, lions, elephants, hyenas and (lately) from slave-gathering Europeans.
What is undoubtedly a gift from God is our democracy. You see, our democracy is a product of our rationality as human beings, and that rationality comes from God. We know that to avoid self-annihilation we have to tamper our natural individual competitiveness with submission to the rule of the majority. And that rule of the majority can only be established through free, fair and credible elections. Our democracy is not a gift from the ruling party (BDP), nor is it a gift from Parliament. Our democracy is not guaranteed by the constitution. It is the constitution that has to be anchored on our democratic ideals. In short, our democracy is inviolable. Take it away and we will go to war! That is what God would command us to do; and that is what our national anthem should reflect.
The electronic voting machine (EVM) is a direct attack on our democracy, not because the EVM can be hacked, not because the EVM was introduced by the ruling BDP, but because the EVM is an active agent between me, a voter casting my vote, and another voter who has to count my vote and convince me that my vote is part of the minority. It is on record that many voters have expressed unhappiness with the use of non-transparent ballot boxes that we have used for the past fifty years. But the potential of these non-transparent boxes to compromise the credibility of an election outcome pales into insignificance when compared to the absolute havoc that an EVM, as an ACTIVE AGENT, can do.
So why is the BDP government insisting on the use of EVM’s in 2019? We can only guess. The EVM is the stick, while the ten million Pula “constituency” allocation is the carrot.
The BDP know, as anybody who has passed basic secondary education does, that the EVM is a computer, and that it can therefore be used to override and change the election choice of any voter. The BDP are therefore using this knowledge as a stick to whip (read recruit) voters into joining their party. Who would dare join parties that they know will be relegated to the dustbins of history by the EVM?
The P10 million “carrot” could be used to entice election candidates of other political parties to defect to them, once the elections hurdle has been passed. We know that our political system, where an elected official is answerable only to him/her self, makes it possible for a political party to lose all the 57 seats in Parliament, but end up “buying” all 57 members of Parliament (MP’s). This is especially possible if the concerned MP’s can be made to sign secret agreements before the elections. The threat of exposure of such agreements could then be used to blackmail such MP’s into “defecting” to the buying party.
There is yet another role the EVM controversy is playing to the benefit of the BDP. The nation has been demanding that ballot boxes be counted at the polling stations rather than being carried long distances to “counting centres”. The African Union Observer Mission report on the 2014 elections also made such a recommendation. The EVM controversy is now diverting the nation’s attention from that and many other demands. 
The result is not very hard to imagine. In the event that the nation “wakes up” before 2019 and refuses to vote through the EVM, Ian Khama could then declare that we revert back to the old system and use it without modification. He could even declare a state of emergency and continue hanging onto power!