Khama, the son of the country's first president and a man who has spent much of his life in the barracks, upon picking his deputy it was feared and widely believed that the Republic of Botswana was now under the military junta. Another man from the barracks, Lieutenant General Mompati Merafhe who has previously served as Khama's superior in the army and has spent much of his life as well in the forces became the vice-president. Khama revealed his cabinet and in it were some top senior government officials, among them some from the barracks with many seen as Khama's cronies. Indeed a junta was taking over, some thought.
Is our democracy under threat? Are we facing a military takeover? Will we see a democracy that has been built for the past four decades being erased by a few men with inevitable love for the camouflage? Will we see a country envied by the rest of the continent for its better record on human rights, democracy and political stability joining the real Africa? Yes, the real Africa, a continent that has never had a rest ever since.
