SHOULD BOTSWANA ALSO TRAFFICK HUMANS?

The next time the presidential jet goes airborne – which could be any minute – it should head to Europe. President Paul Kagame has just cut his country a deal in terms of which Britain will dump black economic refugees who fled there in Rwanda. As more and more Africans flee to Europe, this human trafficking will increase in volume and scale. Following in the example of Britain, other European countries are also going to traffick human beings to Africa because they have more blacks than they need. In the future, African countries will be given foreign aid on the basis of their willingness to accept black Africans trafficked from Europe.

That has become apparent with Rwanda being chosen as the venue for the last Commonwealth Summit. In addition, western media will overlook Kagame’s dictatorship and lionise him like it did Robert Mugabe and Mobuto Sese Seko until they fell out with the west. Our diamonds are being mined out and our efforts to diversify the economy have failed. Human trafficking may be our next best hope. Nobody should worry about Botswana ever being accused of being involved in “human trafficking” because the people who craft language to describe phenomenon are not even using that term but an innocent- sounding one – resettlement programme.