Who needs the other the most- The leader or the led

It is also great theatre as we are given the privilege of watching so regularly on Btv news. The President’s current farewell tour around the country is without precedent both in this country and I suspect, outside it. But is it a one off or due to be repeated? No constitutional monarch would see a need to make such a tour nor indeed would either self-appointed Life Presidents, elected Prime Ministers or other Executive Presidents. It is impossible to believe that the country’s three preceding Presidents, Seretse Khama, Ketumile Masire and Festus Mogae would ever have considered undertaking such tours despite the fact that all three, in contrast with the current President, had secured for the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) a majority percentage of the popular vote.

The only possible equivalent may be when a great sportsman bows out at the end of his/her career and does a lap of honour.