Letshwiti B Tutwane joytutwane@gmail.com Africa Awake! If you think you got problems in your life, wait for a moment. Spare a thought for the 45th President of the United States, Mr Donald John Trump. Following the publication of an opinion piece in the New York Times on September 5, the billionaire-businessman-cum President has had a difficult time trying to figure out who the author might be and tried to pressurise the New York Times to unmask him/her. In what one publication termed ‘a scavenger hunt of sorts’ the president even asked his Attorney-General to formally search for this troublesome civil servant identified in the media as ‘a senior official in the Trump administration’. This is because he views this article as a security breach. Interesting! Sounds familiar-reminds me of incidents in our own jurisdiction here. In Africa, the word national security means just anything. The meaning that it assumes depends on designation by the leaders. In Botswana of the early 1990s, it included publishing of a government savingram on salary negotiations. This got the then Mmegi senior reporter Prof. Malema and his editor Titus Mbuya into trouble. They were only saved by the High Court which threw out the matter…