Reflection on Mogae: Power, the politics that built Botswana

There was a time in Botswana politics when the late former president Festus Gontebanye Mogae was not admired in opposition circles. In the trenches of the Botswana National Front (BNF) where many of us cut our political teeth, he represented the face of an establishment we believed was too cautious, too elitist and too distant from the lived realities of ordinary people.

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