Extracts from: 1. Keynote Address by His Excellency the President, Lt. General Seretse Khama Ian Khama, President of the Botswana Democratic Party to the 34th National Congress of the BDP, on Saturday 8th July 2011, Mahalapye. Another element of our values is RESPECT. RESPECT means being polite and considerate to one another and to our country. Let us be civil to each other, and each one of us should use whatever gift he or she has to serve your country and others. I am appealing to you all as Batswana to exercise SELF CONTROL and desist from the culture that it is all about me AND AVOID INSULTING AND USE OF ABUSIVE TERMS AND LANGUAGE. It is quite normal for people to disagree without using hate speech or ASSASSINATING EACH OTHERS CHARACTER. This caution I also extend to the youthful leadership of opposition parties. God opposes the arrogant, but gives Grace to the humble, all of you must clothe yourselves with humility towards one another. and 2. THE OPENING OF THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE NINTH PARLIAMENT. No democracy can exist without discipline. Wherever I go throughout our great country, I hear voices lamenting that the timeless values that have long held our nation together are under threat. That BOTHO, our shared sense of mutual respect and responsibility, is being replaced with more self-centred, all too often self destructive, social and political behaviour. May I humbly ask if what President Seretse Khama Ian Khama and his bdp campaign team did in Maun to Kgosi Tawana lived up this value called BOTHO (RESPECT) he always exhorts us to uphold?
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