Before we could point accusing fingers, we might just ask - don't we have the right to change our minds? We dare say it is one of the entitlements that we should all enjoy in a democracy. It is the same right that all of us enjoy when we separate from our lovers, but do not have the wisdom to go back once we realise that the young lover that we jilted our old lover for is no angel. We sell our cars and once we are beyond the fancy with the new thing, we realise that we miss that old and reliable machine. Since we allow ourselves the pleasures of back love and 'Maruping go a boelwa' let us not beat Makgalemele so hard for doing what we do all the time.
Perhaps the only difference is that Makgalemele, unlike the late Paul Rantao, Mokgweetsi Kgosipula, Leach Tlhomelang, Knox Kowa and Otlaadisa Koosaletse who left their parties and then came back, did not stay in his home for long. The other defectors stayed longer and only went back to their original parties after a lot of water had passed under the bridge.
