World�s eyes focus on Kanye

Masire, regarded as the principal architect of the country’s economic success and a peacemaker around the world, will be laid to rest in his ward of Goo-Matebejana in Kanye in the culmination of a national mourning period after his death on June 22.

Yesterday, about 1,500 people gathered at the University of Botswana’s sports centre for a memorial service featuring senior local and regional political and judicial leaders, heads of embassies, family members and prominent regional dignitaries.