These lines from Yeats ' Second Coming,' crammed in my college days, ring in my head when I behold the BDP political circus. General elections next year! The scary words from the poem leap forward: ".. What rough beast its hour come at last slouches towards Bethlehem to be born!..."
When Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama was poached from the BDF and smuggled into the Vice Presidency and automatically into the presidency, the grand idea was to quash the nuisance of BDP factions and bring about sanity, stability and tranquility in the party; the A-Team and Barata-Party factions were tearing the governing party apart; besides, Professor Schlemmer's workshop had recommended that a turn-around strategy to redeem the faction-riddled party from the nightmare of 1994 was required. A new, 'vibrant party' with revised outlook and refurbished leadership had to be. The entrenched party factions had to dissolve. It was then that a plot was hatched to venture outside the routine circle of the BDP echelons, into the BDF whose commander Lieutenant General Khama was retiring to his hereditary non-political Bogosi (chieftainship) headquarters in Serowe.
