Hukuntsi BDP SMS President's office

It is a sunny Saturday afternoon in Hukuntsi and the Botswana Democratic Party rally is drawing to a close. As yet another speaker gets on the microphone, the man who acts as MC walks to the back of the crowd where Potso Thari, a Botswana Press Agency (BOPA) reporter, is standing.

She leans on a car. Judge Molemele, the BDP branch chairman, is a cleanly shaved man. He has a red cap on, red-shirt and black pants. He wears glasses. He smiles often. And he is smiling right now.