With hindsight, Phage �s tribal rant is regrettable but has positives

Politicians are, at times prone to moments of madness. They can say what they never meant to say. Slip of the tongue maybe the proper cliché to adopt. And so it happened with one Phagenyane Phage, who has since sparked public debate and in the process received the full wrath and anger of the population.

Phage, whilst addressing a charged-up rally in Molepolole made some very silly remarks about Batswapong. It was his stance that the Batswapong are hired to mourn and cry at Bamangwato funerals and that the occurrence has now become something close to common or normal.

Any person listening to that would have cringed at the suggestion of such, and would on any day shun such tribalistic sentiments which seek to put one tribe above the other, or alternatively a statement that seeks, on the face of it to presuppose an element or a semblance of dominance of one tribe over the other.

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