Fare thee well my brother, my Cde

This passage from Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, one of the greatest literary works of its epoch, informs us that we forget the good deeds of the departed easily but the bad deeds linger longer in our minds.

Someone in response to why Shakespeare uses this quote had this to proffer as an answer: That it is used to allude the nature of legacies. Unlike Mark Antony who was addressing the living through allusions and dramatic irony, mine is an honest reflection on the life of Cde Bashi Sengwaketse. He was human and like everyone else, was not perfect. But unlike most of us who are acres of space away from it, he was not that far. If a ruler was to be used, one would find him a few metres away from perfection.