Among others, the Bakgatla sovereign enjoys the qualified support of the MP for Kgatleng East, Isaac Mabiletsa, who is an advocate of transforming the constitution rather than setting it aside.Mabiletsa says he fears that there would be a crisis if the country's constitution was set aside. Mmegi took the opportunity to have conversations with people at the Gaborone bus station where most people seemed to be ignorant on the subject.
Much of this ignorance, it emerged, emanated from oblivion that seems to be induced by the word "constitution" itself and its Setswana translation as "molao-motheo." It became clear that the exercise might have fared better had the subject been the Penal Code. Twenty-seven year-old Tepo Bathokebafe is not an exception to the nescience. Bathokebafe, who works, as a groundsman, couldn't understand what the fuss was about, saying the constitution - whatever it was - needed no tampering with. But how do you say something is good when you don't understand it? "Never mind," he said.
