Despite the euphoria over cabinet appointments made during the week, where President Mokgweetsi Masisi has been applauded for a meticulous job, concerns over lack of Parliamentary democracy and independence remain. Masisi has created a good mix of experience and youthfulness, age, gender but more importantly the new Executive is made up of cabinet ministers with relevant qualifications, expertise and experience in the portfolios they have been assigned, contrary to past administrations when emphasis was on political activism. Exciting as it appears, an observation made in the past by some scholars about Botswana cabinet -drawn from the current crop of Parliamentarians as dictated by the Constitution- being too bloated remains true to date. Masisi has already appointed 18 full ministers and seven assistant ministers, with the number set to increase when government finally implements the decision to create two new ministries, increasing well over 25 if the new posts come with assistants. Currently 25 out of 61 MPs, almost half of Parliament (or 41 percent) form the Executive. At party level this translates into 25 out of 41 (minus 20 opposition MPs) Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) paliamentraians or out 57 percent forming the executive arm of Government. In simple terms the…