Last minute return to the roots

Less than 24 hours before Koma breathed his last, the Botswana National Front (BNF) was in Mahalapye. Nobody really knows the transient stage between life and death, but to writers who have attempted to shed a light on it, the final moments have been made to feel like a struggle of holding on until the spirit surrenders to mortality.

Was it just a coincidence that when the former BNF leader was struggling for dear life from what became his deathbed at Mahalapye Hospital, his once beloved BNF were agonising over a leadership crisis that threatens to tear apart his once mighty creation?
Across the village at Parwe Community Junior Secondary School, not very far from where Koma conceived and penned most of the BNF's early basic documents, a section of the party was engaged in an intense lobby to lead the BNF. Their concern was to come up with a list of Koma's successors in party elections later this year.