There are several ways to catch fish. One of them is called "phishing". The catch with this is more lucrative than catching a fish.
SEMK Botswana received four "phishing" emails from MijnGovernment, which I did not trust. As I became curious by the repetition of the emails, and because the email wasn't marked as spam, I read it.
"Dear relation,
This service notice contains essential information intended solely for you.
Based on the financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government has decided to give you an extra promise for an amount of € 279.99 on your tax return.
Visit our website for more information about applying for a refund: mijnoverheid.nl/refund-2022
We hope to have informed you sufficiently and wish you a pleasant day.
Sincerely,
Kees van Feringa
MyGovernment
This is an automatically generated email. Responses, questions and comments sent to the sender of this e-mail will therefore not be answered/handled."
Just to be safe, I forwarded the email to: false-email@fraudehelpdesk.nl.

Corruption.
ZAR57-billion: How the Guptas played Monopoly with state money. 23 June 2022. Sarah Smit.
More than ZAR57-billion in public funds were tainted by state capture — and its alleged architects, the Gupta family, raked in at least ZAR15.5-billion, according to the Zondo commission.
In its final report, which Chief Justice Raymond Zondo handed to President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday night, the commission estimates that the state has hemorrhaged ZAR 57,344,912,379.34 during the Gupta era.
https://mg.co.za/news/2022-06-23-r57-billion-how-the-guptas-played-monopoly-with-state-money/

I asked the Stichting Wilde Ganzen (Wild Geese Foundation): "When setting up a project, is the government of the country in question asked to be involved in the planning, implementation and financing? If so, I would be grateful if you could inform me about the reactions of these governments." I have also sent information and links to articles on aid promised to Botswana since 1966. And about the problems at the Anti-Corruption Bureau in Botswana. Without corruption and with the income from the raw materials, there would be less need for citizens to beg from aid organizations in order to survive. The latter seems to have become part of their culture.

Delegation of the European Union to Botswana and SADC no longer funding much-touted education programme.
https://www.sundaystandard.info/eu-no-longer-funding-much-touted-education-programme/

Corruption.
Scource: Princeton University. https://successfulsocieties.princeton.edu/interviews/tymon-katlholo
Innovations for Successful Societies. Building Institutions, Escaping Development Traps.
Case Study: Managing Corruption Risks: Botswana Builds an Anti-Graft Agency, 1994-2012
Date of Interview: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Abstract
In this interview, Tymon Katlholo explains his experience as the director of Botswana’s Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime. He explains the importance of establishing and adhering to guidelines when pursuing cases in order to remain politically neutral and non-discriminatory as an anti-corruption agency. He further discusses some challenges he had faced in achieving institutional independence, managing interagency cooperation, streamlining investigative procedures and raising awareness in regions that are beyond the reach of the media. From his experience, Katlholo draws the lesson that corruption is about service delivery and productivity. In order to fight corruption, it is crucial to enhance professionalism, transparency, and accountability.
Read the whole interview:
https://successfulsocieties.princeton.edu/interviews/tymon-katlholo

Corruption.
Scource: Mmegi. Local Gov’t, Transport most corrupt ministries. Friday, June 3, 2022. By Mompati Tlhankane.
The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) has revealed that the ministry of Local Government and Rural Development is leading with the highest number of reported corruption cases followed by the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
Appearing before the Public Accounts committee (PAC) on Wednesday before he was suspended a day later, the director-general of the DCEC, Tymon Katlholo was responding to a question by PAC member and Francistown South legislator Wynter Mmolotsi. The latter had asked which government ministries and departments recorded the highest number of corruption cases. The MP said he was interested in knowing the ministries that are more prone to corruption than others.,
https://www.mmegi.bw/news/local-govt-transport-most-corrupt-ministries/news

9 June 2022.
March 5, 2022 the topic: Is development aid still needed? started on this website. Mmegi published an article on June 3, 2022, written by journalist Solly Rakgomo, about the commemoration of the annual African Day. Solly Rakgomo believes that the speeches are usually nothing but public relations exercises that have nothing to do with the plight of millions of Africans who are suffering from extreme hunger and poverty. What does he think it is about? Read it on
https://www.mmegi.bw/opinion-amp-analysis/a-reflection-of-africa-day-celebrations/news

Read first from June 2, 2022.
It is unclear to me why presidents in Botswana after the end of their term of office are paid redundancy pay for the rest of their lives, including to maintain an office, to travel, to use a government aircraft for private travel, etc.. This shows something about the morality of some presidents (and kings) if they can live with living in lavish luxury themselves, while many of their fellow countrymen are unemployed and have to ask the government for a food package. Do they still think that they have been appointed by God to protect and guide their fellow countrymen? And therefore have more privileges than their compatriots?

Read from 2 June 2022.
This is quite different from the redundancy pay in the Netherlands, which is shorter in duration. If a minister or state secretary resigns, he or she is entitled to a benefit of: 80 % percent of the last received remuneration in the first year; 70 % of the last received remuneration from the second year. The benefit lasts as long as the period that the person has served as a minister or state secretary, but applies for a minimum of two and a maximum of three years and two months, provided the minister/state secretary has been in office for at least three months. For the redundancy pay it does not matter what the reason for the resignation was.
The benefit lapses as soon as the ex-minister/state secretary earns enough in another position. Income is deducted from the redundancy payment. There is a job application obligation up to the age of 65. Former ministers and state secretaries have a right for support in finding another position.
Since 2003, a minister/state secretary who has been in office for less than three months only receives redundancy pay for six months upon resignation. Until then, retiring ministers always received a minimum of two years' redundancy pay. Scource: https://www.parlement.com/id/vizom7wk0qyr/wachtgeld

Read from 2 June 2022.
I have not found information about redundancy pay for the first president (Seretse Khama) and the second one (Quett Masire). Quett Masire was 73 years old when he stepped down in 1998, so retired by our standards.

Read from 2 June 2022.
Meanwhile the Office of Former President Festus Mogae (president from 1998- 2008) has not been spared the budget cuts among the retired state leaders. The estimates show that Mogae’s office has a budget of P2,3million for the year 2022- 2023, a sharp drop from the P3,5 million he was allocated in the last financial year.
The former president’s office has been allocated P369,020 budgeted for his external travel for the current financial year and P88,760 his internal travels. (It is not clear to me if this is on top of the BWP 2,3 million, or part of it.)
(After his terms as president, he served in different committees and on boards. In 2011 he served as chairman of the Choppies supermarket group where he earned. BWP 529,000. Scource: Wikipedia)

Resignation pay for presidents of Botswana. Friday, May 27, 2022. Source: Mmegi. By Innocent Seletlhwa. (Can you speak of resignation if someone can no longer be re-elected?)
Abbreviation: BWP: Botswana Pula.
According to available budget data, the budget for former President Ian Khama's office has fallen since he stepped down (2018) from an initial BWP 4,3 million to the BWP 3,6 million his office will receive in the current financial year (2021-2022). The bulk of the budget was allocated to office allowances, with BWP 948,960 set aside for 'basic salary' and nearly BWP 50,000 for various types of allowances.
The latest estimates show that the significant cut relates to the salaries and allowances of the staff in Khama's office, which amounted to BWP 2.6 million in 2020-2021 and is now only P1,6 million in the current fiscal year. 6 million has been allocated.
In his first year after retirement, Khama was allocated BWP 1.7 million for external travel and BWP 145,000 for his internal trips. In the current financial year, his Office has been allocated BWP 600,000 for external travel and BWP 60,000 for internal trips.
The actual figures of how much Khama spent on external and internal travel in the last financial year have yet to be made available. However, the former president left some time ago for South Africa without notifying government, suggesting he could be bearing his own costs.
Read more: https://www.mmegi.bw/news/govt-cuts-spending-on-former-hes/news

First read 16 May 2022.
Botswana constitution (1966) compared to amendment in Dutch constitution. (2022).
Botswana constitution 1966.
4. Protection of right to life. (1) No person shall be deprived of his or her life intentionally save in execution of the sentence of a court in respect of an offence under the law in force in Botswana of which he or she has been convicted.
Scource: Botswna Government.
Amendment of Dutch constitution 2008.
1. Explanation. No one can get the death penalty.
2. Formal explanation. Article 114 includes the prohibition to impose the most absolute punishment, the death penalty. This punishment is widely regarded, nationally and internationally, as inhumane.
Explanation. No one can get the death penalty. No matter how bad the crime is, a Dutch judge cannot sentence anyone to death. Not even in a special situation. Or in a war. Never!
Scource: www.denederlandsegrondwet.nl