There was a time when another colleague, Arts & Culture coordinator Goitsemodimo Kaelo, instigated Segokgo and Kolantsho to pose for a picture to prove the point about the duo’s resemblance. Do they really look alike? That’s a topic for another day. This week, we feature the outspoken Tlokweng legislator Segokgo in the Know Your MP weekly political feature, and we look at his journey, which began in 2003 when he completed his Form 5 at Naledi Senior Secondary School and joined the then-ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). It’s been a long journey with ups and downs. He concedes that turbulence is inevitable in any political journey. What is important, he emphasises, is how one survives the inexorable confrontations.
Segokgo has been a leader since his childhood. He was a school head boy at Matlala Junior Secondary School and later served as a Student Representative Council president at Naledi Senior Secondary School in Gaborone. “So, I will say I have been doing these leadership roles from a tender age. Maybe I got interested because of my family being in politics, I don’t know,” he tells Mmegi. He insists he looked up to the late former president of the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD), Gomolemo Motswaledi, and Vice President and Minister of Finance, Ndaba Gaolathe. “They really aided me in this journey, and Ndaba is still playing that mentorship role hitherto.” Segokgo, who was a councillor previously, enjoyed the five years he spent serving the people at that level until constituents felt he should serve them better in a higher role as a legislator in the 2024 General Election. So, he got the nudge and contested. “I also felt the same way, but the council is also an important institution in the development of the country, more especially local communities.
