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The conversations at Mmokoldi and Phakalane, among the white elite and the Africans who emulate them, recount with reverence of Seretse Khama's arrival at Serowe as leader of the Botswana Democratic Party, prime minister and the proper King of the BaNgwato who had stabbed South African apartheid in the eye by marrying a white lady.

The promise of an election in 1966 electrified the eligible voters who had only experienced democracy by listening to stories about it from the 'return soldiers' who had come close to it after fighting in Europe in the world wars.