How Masisi blindsided Khama :: Mmegi Online

Had former president Ian Khama known that in his political lifetime he and his protege and incumbent President Mokgweetsi Masisi would experience a major fall out, he would have probably not anointed him his successor. Mmegi Staff Writer RYDER GABATHUSE reports that the decision by Masisi to dump his former boss is not without precedent

FRANCISTOWN: For the uninitiated, it was now former president Ian Khama who fought tooth and nail to ensure that his choice of the then vice president Mokgweetsi Masisi was installed. Khama even fought some court battles to remove all the obstacles that threatened to block his choice and won the day. Little did he know that one day, he would be fighting political battles against his former man.

The former president never imagined one-day Masisi breaking rank with him. They were like inseparable Siamese twins oblivious of the reality that in politics, there are neither permanent enemies nor friends.

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