It is said that after Nchindo died, his body was discovered by some nightly carnivores. Out there, in the forest they continued to tear into ingestible pieces. Each animal took its share, a piece here a piece there. And that night while the nation slept, and some partied till morning, the man whose name had become synonymous with diamond and all its virtues and vices took his first steps back to his creator. Alone.
But Nchindo was not always a loner. Not because he loved company, which he did, but because a man who had been the head of Debswana, the chairman of the Botswana Stock Exchange, Barclays Bank and resident director of Anglo-American in Botswana and a conduit between the De Beers group and the ruling Botswana Democratic Party that had become the golden goose of the mining giant cannot be alone. A man who had a say in who would be the next president will not be found alone, company sought him out. At one point a close friend of President Festus Mogae and a major player in the national economy and polity, Nchindo knew people and those who he did not know wish he did.
