How I met Mogae

Back at university,  Mogae won over the students admiration when he refused to have the National Development Bank (NDB) write off loans for farmers. One of the farmers whose loan was not written off was former President Sir Ketumile Masire. He was then the Finance Minister and was suddenly viewed as brave and refreshingly different from the then crop of politicians.

Mogae, who had had an illustrious career in the public ,was not known politically. At least to some of us. As students at the University of Botswana (UB), we never saw his coming.