Through the dark, to the dawn

While he has only been in office for 14 years and at the helm for 10, Pius Molefe is the face of the Botswana Building Society (BBS), striking a stern if not intimidating glare out of the numerous newspaper pages that have chronicled his battles on behalf of the organisation over the years.

Indeed, in the last decade the Society has experienced the most trying times of its history, with legal tussles against government and key shareholders, only complicating the pressures inherent in attempting to extract profit from an anachronistic business model. While most famous for tackling government and, later, two powerful shareholders, Molefe’s real achievement is in sowing the seeds of an idea that blossomed with last Friday’s unanimous vote.