Khama�s �happiest hour�

He has every reason to be happy because, finally, his counterpart Robert Mugabe’s fate lies in the hands of the military and he is going to step down.

As a new President in 2008, after a decade as Vice President, Khama watched Zimbabwe degenerate into the verge of becoming a failed state with very little to do to reverse the tide except to scream to whoever would care to listen. When the region was silent in 2008 after Mugabe lost the presidential elections to Morgan Tsvangirai of Movement for Democratic Change, and a re-run marred by state sponsored violence, Khama broke the silence and said Botswana will not recognise Mugabe as a legitimate President of Zimbabwe. Tsvangirai abstained from the election re-run at the last minute citing violence and intimidation of his supporters.