The candidates were wishing the day could hasten because of their levels of fatigue, as well as anticipation. For the electorates, it was a matter of being intimidated and taunted by the blurring noises from the loud speakers of all kinds of aspiring politicians. I want to believe it is high time Parliament passes a law to out-law political noise beyond 9pm and before 6am. The different councils could coin some by-law that regulates the use of public address systems beyond and before these hours. This is a time when most of the people settle to sleep and students get down to working on that assignment that is due the next morning. And every political party is guilty of this offence.
This week I would like to delve deep into analysing the results of the just completed General Election. It is indeed true that voters can be very unpredictable. We have seen that in the Lobatse constituency where Nehemiah Modubule lost to a greenhorn in politics while he had the advantage of incumbency. Not only that, Modubule had won this constituency in the previous election as Mokoko (independent). He had just been expelled by his own party in one of the most trivial ways. One of the BNF candidates who received a boot on the eleventh hour was Robert Molefhabangwe, (go lo a go letseng – politically speaking) and also went on to run as Mokoko and lost dismally.
