“…However, if we truly are a democracy, the ruling party must bear in mind at all times that tomorrow, you may be the opposition, and the opposition politics must also treat themselves as a government in waiting,” Sir Ketumile eulogized Gomolemo Motswaledi.
It has been 10 years since this forewarning. It can only mean that the Botswana Democratic Party was never forearmed. Dr. Ian Khama won the 2014 general elections without respecting this advice. Neither could Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi heed the message in the 2019 elections, where the popular vote for the party plummeted to a marginal 52% in its history.
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