Ndaba's burden (Final)

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In this final part of a profile of economist and Botswana Movement for Democracy policy thinker Ndaba Gaolathe, staff writer TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA tracks the inspiration behind the young businessman's economic philosophy and his role in the opposition BMD

As things would turn out, by the late 1990s, Hidipo Hamutenya was sidelined after he sought to succeed the powerful Sam Nujoma as Namibian President while the latter wanted to anoint Hifikepunye Pohamba.

Ndaba returned to Botswana to join the country's think tank the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis in 1997. President Quett Masire, who had vast experience at the economic stewardship of the country, had seen to the establishment of BIDPA two years earlier. Its sole objective is to offer policy analyses through research and to monitor the country's economic performance. BIDPA was more prominent then, that being the time when economist Festus Mogae took over as President.

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