Tshekedi Khama was right to oppose Seretse�s marriage

It is interesting that what has been made available for public consumption has been that Tshekedi, in one sense or the other hated Seretse with all intensity. Of course Tshekedi was a no nonsense leader regardless of whom he was faced with, including the British colonial masters. Tshekedi was to Seretse a loving uncle who, in one way or the other, had assumed to role of a father to Seretse. Remember that Seretse’s father, Sekgoma, had died when Seretse was only four-years-old.

Seretse had never experienced a father’s love in all the years of his self-awareness. Tshekedi fitted the father figure that he ever would desire. The relationship between the two had always been cordial and the departure point was Seretse’s marriage to a white woman.