Boko unveils fiancee

LAWRENCE SERETSE
Correspondent | Thursday July 18, 2013 00:00

 

Soon enough the 46-year old lawyer clearly had something important to say. And indeed he did, telling his party's national congress that unlike other political leaders, he did not want to flounder for want of a significant other.In the year preceding the congress, Boko had revealed his plans to marry but would not give any details.. But he now appeared with the woman - in the flesh - whose hand he intends to take in marriage. The name of the one destined to become Mrs Duma Boko before this year is out, as he told Mmegi later, is Kaone Mokganedi.

'I am going to marry her before the end of this year,' Boko announced. 'We have been together for many years and have a six-year old son.' Although he was careful not to reveal too much to the media, he said Mokganedi is a lawyer working for a private firm. The prepossessing woman is 26-years old and hails from Moshupa.In an exclusive interview with Mmegi at Kalahari Arms Hotel here, Boko could not help waxing lyrical about his fiance.'She is young and dynamic,' he said. 'Free-spirited and incredibly beautiful. I just love how her intelligence sparkles and her beauty bedazzles.'

And then came the warning: 'She is not BNF president, so I'll expect the media to give her space. That is why I do not want to stretch it too far but keep the allure and aura of our romance a mystery at this point.'Also revealed was the identity of the Best Man: It is 33-year old Elliot Mashoke of Mahalapye who is a black belt in the martial arts! 'No, no, no,' Boko says in denunciation and refutation of any idea that Mashoke is his bodyguard. 'He is not my bodyguard, he is a businessman and my loyal friend. It is just fortunate that he also knows martial arts and can look out for me.'

The BNF leader also disclosed that his other Best Man will be Rick Yune. Yes, you guessed right - the actor, producer and script writer who featured alongside Hollywood hunk Vin Diesel in the movie Fast and Furious, James Bond's Die Another Day and alongside Morgan Freeman in the 2013 block buster Olympus Has Fallen.