The Assistant Minister of State President, Meshack Mthimkhulu, took shelter behind logical fallacies when the Serowe South MP, Leepetswe Lesedi, unleashed a
1st February 2021
Having been knocked off its pedestal by Seychelles in the Corruption Perception Index, Botswana’s score in a ranking system maintained by Transparency International is also declining.
TI’s CPI for 2020 shows that Botswana has maintained second place for the third year running but that its score dropped from last year’s 61 to 60. Three remarkable things have happened. Firstly, for the third year running, Botswana has failed to score highest in the Sub-Saharan Region. Established in 1995, the CPI ranks nations on the prevalence of corruption and beginning then until 2018, Botswana has been continuously adjudged Africa’s least corrupt country. In 2018, Seychelles knocked Botswana off its pedestal and that may portend an inglorious future for Botswana. Secondly, not only is Botswana no longer Africa’s least corrupt country, its score is declining – which means that corruption is rising. The latter means that Botswana’s ranking could slip even farther on