The Fall of Salakae

Only weeks ago, Noah Salakae sat at the polished tables of Botswana’s Cabinet, entrusted with one of the government’s most consequential portfolios: Transport and Infrastructure. Today, the former minister is preparing to stand before a magistrate court on corruption charges, his political career hanging by a thread and his party wrestling with the implications of a scandal that reaches into its own ranks. Salakae is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 28, following an...