Khama�s surprise appointment :: Mmegi Online

As President Ian Khama sets in motion a journey to vacate office next year April 1, and hands over the baton of power to Vice President (VP) Mokgweetsi Masisi, Mmegi Staff Writer RYDER GABATHUSE and Correspondent SIKI MOTSHWARI JOHANNESS look at Part V of Khama’s men and women in cabinet and how the President exercised his prerogative in appointing his team

In politics everything is fluid. The system of permanent alliances or permanent adversaries has no place in the realm of politics. The relationship between President Ian Khama and Cabinet minister Pelonomi Venson-Motoi bears testimony to this.

Ever since assuming the presidency, Khama’s closest ally in Cabinet had been Venson-Moitoi. They spent too much time together. Now and then she would be in the company of the people’s President in his many community outreach ventures (the walkabouts and interactions with ordinary mortals and the elderly). They were even reported to be on first name basis and their political relationship was indeed rock solid.

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