Letter to Seretse

Mahetsakgang regiment at Serowe Kgotla during the Khama farewell PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES
Mahetsakgang regiment at Serowe Kgotla during the Khama farewell PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES

Dumela Phuti. I am writing this from Serowe where morafe has just welcomed back your son and their Kgosikgolo back at the Kgotla where he was draped with the lion's skin.

Ian is stepping down as President of Botswana in a few days and he was in Serowe to bid Bangwato farewell as state president. He returns to the Kgotla with many titles. This is how he is addressed “His Excellency the president Lieutenant General Dr Seretse Khama Ian Khama” (he loves all those titles but he has since accepted that his name is confusing and does not mind ‘Iyene’ as many address him).

It was Ian’s last Kgotla meeting in the marathon farewell meetings that he began in Moshupa on December 14, 2018. Bangwato had come in many numbers although your uncle’s last born, Kgosi Sekgoma Khama said they were not as many as the day Ian was coronated.

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