What Mogae Left Us With :: Mmegi Online

President Festus Mogae's first stop at the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning on his way to the highest office was, as almost all appointments are at that level, a compromise between hard attitudes on opposite ends of the organisational spectrum at the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP).

It was popularly believed then that retired Lt General Mompati Merafhe would have had the Vice Presidency, had it not been for his perceived bellicose manner on his dramatic entry into politics. He started on the wrong footing right from the very beginning, when he was thoroughly licked by the then BDP chairman Peter Mmusi, at the Palapye congress, after he was warned that his chances were even slimmer against Secretary General, Daniel Kwelagobe, in the early 1990s.

He was to confess privately on the way to opening the Botswana Journalists Association (BOJA) workshop on 'press freedom' that "I would not have gotten myself involved in this if I had known that this is the way they do things".

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What Mogae Left Us With

President Festus Mogae's first stop at the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning on his way to the highest office was, as almost all appointments are at that level, a compromise between hard attitudes on opposite ends of the organisational spectrum at the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP).

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