Dear Joao

You have been a part of us for quite a while, Joao Salbany. That is why many of us here feel bereaved. We first met at Law School, remember.  You were Chairperson of the UB, Law Society and I was doing my first year. I was a member of the society’s Executive Committee. I was young Joao, hardly out of my teens. I trust you know how young people think when they enter University.

They think that the whole country, including the BDF and the prostitutes by the Gaborone West bars would be better off in their hands and that the President and the Ministers have no idea what they are doing. They argue forcefully, Joao, that the Ethiopian Emperor slept with the Queen of Sheba during her visit to Ethiopia and bore the wise King Solomon and that the true Jesus Christ, was black.