A robbers’ girlfriends- only Miss Botswana

In keeping with decades- long convention, the Botswana Council of Women will soon be hosting a Miss Botswana beauty contest and a mostlymale panel of judges will make a controversial choice on the winner. But let’s try to be more realistic. We have a pandemic and our leaders are importing “investors” from the hardest- hit countries – which should force us into the realization that we are on our own. Such realization necessitates taking steps to limit health risks that could result from a long drawn- out, nationwide selection process that sees organisers travelling the length and breadth of Botswana.

We propose a Miss Botswana contest limited to the girlfriends of robbers. If you have ever attended court for a robbery case, you will understand exactly what we mean.

For some inexplicable reason, robbers tend to have extremely beautiful girlfriends and during major robbery cases, the Gaborone regional Magistrate Court sees more feminine beauty than the Gaborone International Convention Centre does during Miss Botswana contests. Never shy to flaunt their God- given and robbery moneyenhanced) gifts, robber girlfriends sashay around the courtroom and court compound the same way beauty contestants do on stage. Their understanding of law and court processes is also so refined that you almost want to call them “intellectual gladiators.”

This understanding shines through after unsuccessful bail applications when these girls poke holes in the magistrate’s ruling, citing precedents and quoting legal authorities in the case of the State versus So- and- So. Isn’t that what BCW wants - beauties with brains?