Botswana walks the way of British electoral crisis

Together they form part of a not so large phalanx of BDP supporters who, nevertheless, were soon to overwhelm the opposition in the first general election, to have a preparatory year of hands on experience of government under British tutelage and were then to take flight with the achievement of Independence in September 1966. It all had to begin somewhere". 

Perhaps the most important legacy of the English colonial system remains the Westminster type, otherwise known as the 'First past the post' electoral system that Khama and his colleagues subscribed to.