Three weeks ago the country watched in total disbelief as members of the same political party (BMD) took each other head-on at their gathering in Bobonong. Truth is we all saw this coming, no one was really surprised, maybe the choice of arsenals used in that fight is what shocked most people. We didn’t exactly imagine they would go there armed with Bibles then start throwing verses at each other but still, they caught all of us napping. For the benefit of those who were still at kindergarten in 1998, a similar fight once took place in at a BNF congress in Palapye. The choice of weapons at the time was good old fists, and for the ones not gifted in left and right hooks and uppercuts, legend has it that desks and chairs became their salvation.
Until Bobonong happened, I never knew or imagined that a catapult (seragantshwane/rekere) could ever be used around people, in open spaces to aim and shoot at fellow human beings! Growing up, and I have used it myself, that thing was very effective in shooting down birds. That was its sole use. You only ate a bird you shot down yourself, that was a rule.
