There is no Choice - We Must Give Him a Chance

But given the personal background of the now ex-President, which was known to everyone, it cannot be claimed that the country’s ten-year experiment occurred without its awareness and concurrence. Perhaps it could also be claimed that the experiment was no more than a development of the role of the Dikgosi in the pre-Independence years.

 Otherwise it may be suggested that the country walked knowingly into this entirely new situation in order to usher in a new dawn or to obliterate the supposedly disastrous years of the Mogae tenure.