Primary colors are red, blue and yellow. When any two primary colors are mixed, several secondary colors are created. In other words, primary colors are the source and progenitor of other colors. In Botswana, and for present purposes, primary colors are relevant for two main reasons. First, the primary colors of red and blue, respectively, are the dominant colors of the past ruling political party which lost the last general elections, and the current ruling coalition party led by DGB, while yellow is the dominant color of the junior political party in the ruling coalition. Second, primary colors symbolize how a political life typically demands the mixing of personal values and ambitions with political opportunism, which leads to transformation. That is the interesting, if depressing reality of the private cost of public power.
The neatness of the beginning of the 2nd year of DGB's presidency in November 2025 is that it is a chance to offer a prognosis of that presidency in the next 4 years by assessing it at the end of its inaugural year. I begin it from this provocative assessment. Because of the irony provided by his personal experience, and his intuitive grasp of the lives of ordinary people here, DGB had the best chance of not sacrificing idealism and good intentions on the altars of opportunity and greed.
