Mogaes eulogy occupies half of the words on the first pages and sets him apart from the handful of the young Batswana economists, perhaps the brainiest being Syracuse-trained Keboemetse Bareki, Honorious Kedikilwe at Rochester, and Ben Gasennelwe of the East, who represented the local input into development economics of the late 60s and the period thereafter.
They were raised in the system alongside the likes of Quill Hermans and some apprentice Londoners who came together with development aid to practice on the 500,000 Rand economy whose central growth points were cows and donor assistance. Ten years later, the country is landed in the position it occupied in 1998 when the Domkrag youth chastised Ketumile Masire, even with his hands-on training at the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning when he was vice-president, of illiteracy in the economics of 21 century globalisation. In 2008, the very youth activist who cheered for Masires political demise on account of illiteracy in figures, is happy to spur on one who hardly boasts anything near Mogae or Masires intellectual equipment even though he possesses an alternative arsenal which will have to do for the Botswana Democratic Party in a peasant country.
