Khama/Masisi team: Can they deliver desired results?

Friday, January 16, 2015

With almost 60 days into his five-year second term at the helm, after October 2014 general elections, Mmegi Staffer RYDER GABATHUSE asks if President Ian Khama and Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi are really a good combination to produce the desired results at both party and government level

FRANCISTOWN: There is no doubt that President Khama has ‘replicated’ himself or his character in choosing Masisi as his Vice President and perhaps as the heir to the presidency when his term comes to an end in 2018.

Khama and Masisi thrive on populism with a tendency of pleasing the masses at the expense of the public resources, which can be fatal to the country’s economy.

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Khama/Masisi team: Can they deliver desired results?

With almost 60 days into his five-year second term at the helm, after October 2014 general elections, Mmegi Staffer RYDER GABATHUSE asks if President Ian Khama and Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi are really a good combination to produce the desired results at both party and government level