Monday, November 4, 2024

BPF has a cultural strategy to win Kgalagadi South

As president, Ian Khama spent 80 percent of his dance-floor time with his right arm wrapped around the waist of a parade of Kgalagadi District maidens that he waltzed around the arena with. Having become a slick politician, the movements that he made with ease suggested that he had rehearsed polka dance thoroughly behind closed doors. It was precisely because he put that much presidential prestige behind polka that this dance grew in popularity and has since spawned commercial-dance troupes that are now super-concentrated in the Kgalagadi districts and speckled around neighbouring ones.

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