Picture this: Three ministers bedecked in business suits sprinting away from a fully packed Kgotla meeting on foot! It is a scene normally found in the make-believe world of movies. So perhaps that is why when this anomaly played itself out at a Mogoditshane Kgotla, everyone was rooted into shocked silence.
Reminiscent of Botswana's sprinting sensation Amantle Montsho, ministers Maxwell Motowane (Assistant Minister of Local Government), followed by Gaotlhaetse Matlhabaphiri, Assistant Health Minister and his boss, Health Minister Dr John Seakgosing trailing behind cut a comical picture of serious men running away from something terrible. Fear. That terrible monster which possesses you like a devil, scaring you, was running rampage amongst the country's top leaders as they ran for dear life. There was no protocol about it. Actually there is no protocol on this. No one, even the police officers as they stood perplexed watching government ministers on the run, ever imagined that there would ever be such an eventuality. The mood at the Mogoditshane Kgotla is rightly captured by renowned American poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson who poignantly says "What we flee from flees from us." So the ministers must surely have been running away from their fear, with the hope that it will flee from them.
