In theory, it couldn’t possibly have happened. However, Government spokesman, J. Ramsay confirmed that recently the convoy of the Premier of the North West Province in South Africa ‘forced vehicles escorting HE President Khama, amongst others, off the road.’ It is that, ‘amongst others’ term that is so important. Did Premier Mahumapelo somehow force all the vehicles in the President’s convoy off the A1, or all of them with the exception of the President’s? It is not clear. To which vehicles was Ramsay referring as being ‘amongst others’? Probably/possibly, the several hundred vehicles that Premier Mahumapelo may have forced off the road as he traveled from Francistown to Ramatlhabama.
I had this kind of experience many years ago when being ordered off the road by a motor biked security gentleman. Off the road, he shouted, not to the side of the road. Not the moment to debate the matter and anyway how long does one have before being run down? So, I careered left, waited under a friendly tree for His Eminence to pass and then resumed my journey. But let’s stick with the two convoys. One, suggests the Guardian, was travelling at great speed which was presumably enough to overtake the President’s convoy which, for the sake of argument, was moving at the regulation 120 kph. From memory in Gaborone, HE’s convoy consists of four motor bikes followed by four cars, then the President, then four more cars and then the motor bikes again.
