To be slim, famous and black

Actually, he could even be self-effacing about his self-deprecation! His favourite way of describing himself as a farmer on loan to politics was apt.

He always thought of himself as nothing special, just an ordinary man who happened to ascend to high societal positions through an accident of circumstances, maybe even as a burden as much as a gift to him. There has to be more to him than this. It seems that many who knew or worked with him thought that there was. Otherwise, how could he have been a running mate of a charismatic chief, and later his Vice President? How could he have simultaneously been the highest and longest serving treasury head at two significant time periods for Botswana? At one period, with Botswana being one of the world’s poorest nations, and at another, with Botswana as the country with the world's highest GDP growth rate?