Thus flattered the president could utter words of a conquering general: “I will not apologise……I am not a dictator? ... ” I this, I that, me.., my..! He went on to describe his critics as “frustrated lost souls in the opposition…” Lost souls according to the bible end up in hell, the eternal fire. One prays this hell-fire was real and there was the afterlife! ‘Lost souls’ depicted on earth by the president would swap places with those who see ‘lost souls’ in their critics on earth. Unthinking, the president contradicts himself when he states: ‘I will not apologise’…. And then bluffs, ‘I am not a dictator! ’Well, people who won’t apologise are worse than Oscar Pistorius, who kills his girlfriend, sobs in court to apologise to her family under cross-examination in court! Those who won’t apologise for what they are being criticised or indicted for, can’t be less than dictators. By denying he is a dictator, yet struts around swearing he won’t apologise when his mistakes are fingered, implies he is a top brass dictator!
Dictator is someone who thinks he/she is always right; someone who is beyond reproach, an infallible person on par with the pope of Rome when he interprets church doctrine. Khama is not the pope when he interprets democracy and its principles. Imagine Idi Amin Dada, Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin apologising to anybody for anything; wouldn’t it be a contradiction in terms? Only a democrat says mea culpa when wrong; when he/she is right he/she need not apologise since the majority will bear witness to his story, but when criticised he/she must pause and check whether he/she may be wrong. “I will not apologise….I am not a dictator,” betrays a dictator incarnate!
