Of Mogae, farewell speeches, white horses and heifers

Staff Writer TSHIRELETSO MOTLOGELWA finds that Mogae could teach other presidents a thing or two about collecting gifts.

Every now and then, when a president is about to leave office, there are cartoons depicting the president as a beggar out in the street, or as an unemployed vagrant.

That image could not be further from the truth. It is after their tenure that presidents become wealthier. In fact, for many presidents, their tenure is but a period of short-term political pain, in anticipation of a longer epoch of mostly economic gain. 

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