Molosi offers �Tea With SSK� at President Hotel
Nnasaretha Kgamanyane | Thursday September 22, 2016 15:27
The event, which started yesterday evening, is scheduled to run until Saturday.
Molosi said, he would allow only 40 people per day. He said the performance would be one of a kind, as the audience will be given a chance to interact with him. The award-winning Broadway and Hollywood actor plays the first President of Botswana, Sir Seretse Khama.
“This event will help the audience relate to SSK. It will make them know him more and relate to the challenges he went through when he wanted to marry his wife, Ruth Khama because she was a white woman. However, Seretse was able to convince his uncles to accept his marriage as he was madly in love with her,” Molosi said in a recent media briefing.
He said the performance would re-enact the way it would be like if SSK was alive, intertwining the past and the present.
Molosi added that Tea With SSK marks those monuments where the former president used to walk. He said he found it relevant to host his performance at President Hotel as it was built in 1966 where it started off with two stories.
He said the performance would be a connection between history and geography.
The Blue, Black and White author and actor treated the media to a few quotations from SSK’s speeches also included in his script.
“When I grew up, I lived in Botswana for only 12 years and I realised that there was more I wanted to know about Botswana. I had therefore started researching about this country and became passionate about knowing about SSK. I did a lot of research in the past 10 year. I wrote Blue, Black and White, which I had since been performing abroad and locally,” he said.
“This play is set in the right time when the country will be celebrating independence. It will help us to look at how we have done as a republic.; how we have grown or developed because of SSK’s contribution towards helping us gain independence,” he said.
Molosi has three products on SSK, which are the live play titled Blue, Black and White, a film about Seretse and his role in the development of Botswana and a book titled Blue, Black and White launched last week.
According to President Hotel’s general manager, Agripa Mbulawa they found it fit to join hands with Molosi as the hotel will also celebrate its golden jubilee.
He said the hotel that was only a two-story building was revamped to six-stories.
“We have also increased our employees to 107 people. As a way of giving back to the community, our hotel has sponsored many events and more especially a number of our local artists. We have seen it fit to partner with Molosi so that Batswana can know some of the speeches from the first President,” he said. The event is free of charge.