Ntlo ya Dikgosi should be our House of Lords

We use the First-Past-the-Post electoral system, which allows the party with majority elected members to automatically take  government. Assuming power is irrespective of the percentage of voters the majority party gets, as all it needs is 50 percent of the seats in Parliament.

The Westminster system has the House of Commons, an equivalent of Botswana’s House of National Assembly, or Parliament. Our colonial masters also have the House of Lords, which in our case, could be the Ntlo ya Dikgosi, which was for a long time before indigenising the name in the early 2000s  was known as House of Chiefs.