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Masetlheng: The street that nurtured Boko

Masetlheng has produced a State President
Masetlheng has produced a State President

When President Duma Boko and his party won Botswana elections for the 13th Parliament, on Ocober 30, (nearly six decades into our democracy), his Masetlheng home in Tlokweng nippily reformed its fortunes. Mmegi Staffers RYDER GABATHUSE & TIMOTHY LEWANIKA were at Masetlheng ward and witnessed the developments

By the time you read this story, the fluid developments at the President’s long term residence would have shifted as this week Monday, the President was moved to a more manageable space security wise by his handlers, to a government guest house awaiting his predecessor to vacate the State House. But, this does not seem to take away the significance of the Masetlheng home to the President’s life. This is where all the powerful strategies that won the UDC the presidency and other achievements were plotted after a long stretch of missing the idiomatic bus.

The frantic frenzy around plot 2748 Masetlheng home of the President is made peculiar by the streets simplicity that doesn’t immediately give away the presence of the First Citizen’s homestead. The length and breadth of the area is common man’s ground, the bells and whistles in the area’s building aren’t bespoke but lo and behold a President arose.

Editor's Comment
Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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