When the Angolan consulate representative Jose Carlos Daio Silver stood up to express his frustrations over what he says are continuous false accusations leveled at his country of birth over tempering with the Okavango basin water he was clearly an unhappy man. This was after Dr John Mendelsohn of Research and Information Services of Namibia (RAISON) made a presentation on ‘Perspectives and uses of the Okavango River Basin’ in Gaborone on Thursday where he among others outlined future uses of Okavango/Cubango river water in Angola and Namibia. According to the Daio Silver, it always comes as a shock to them to learn from the media that Angola was painted as the ‘bad guy’ in Botswana by the press whenever the Okavango Delta downstream in Botswana dried. “It is really sad to hear people accusing us of such. Angola has no intentions to do bad to Botswana. We never have the intentions to prejudice Botswana,” he insisted.Though his sentiments may just be dismissed as emotional rumblings of a man who felt cornered in a foreign land in a room full of people who probably harbored the same views he was standing to speak out against, some critics say there is more…