Mosepele Wa Lerato - a dead love song that killed a tree

My first memory of Charma Gal’s song, Mosepele Wa Lerato, often mistakenly called Hard Rock, used to be a sight of Minister of Presidential Affairs Eric Molale dancing during the August 2015 Goodhope-Mabule primary election campaign.

It was a Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) launch and Charm Gal (real name Magdalene Lesole) was at her charming best dancing seductively with Molale on the Domkrag stage. She was touching him, stroking his belly, caressing his chin, pulling his red scarf like the way Playboy Mansion girls play with Hugh Hefner. He loved it, getting down to it, shaking to it as he happily hugged her the way Blessers hold their young girls in night clubs after many rounds of Moet. Although it was a charming sight, it was rather discomforting to a conservative society for an elder to be kicking off like that in front of dozens of people with a young sassy lady who had just divorced.