Mmegi, Botswana Authorities in Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa had initiated programmes to educate their people and try to control the spread of AIDS. While Botswana's neighbours regularly published information on the rapidly escalating effects of this killer disease, Botswana still appeared to regard AIDS as a scarecrow. In June 1990 the problem was dismissed by The Ministry of Health with the bland assertion that only 43 people in Botswana had contracted Aids to date. Mmegi , June 1990 Fence Sittin' was published weekly by Mmegi newspaper in Botswana from June 1990 to June 1992. Mmegi is run by an independent trust and is the most respected newspaper in Botswana. It is rightly regarded as the campaigning conscience of the media. Fence Sittin' covered national and international political and social issues including the minimum wage, the poor state of the health service, government corruption, excessive military spending, government bias and censorship in the media, aids, apartheid etc. Fence Sittin' by Luke Warm won the 1990 Botswana Press Trust Cartoon Award. Keywords: autografix, luke warm, titus mbuya, cartoon, mmegi, fence sittin', botswana, africa, aids, politics, social issues, ministry of health