Growing up as a typical village boy with limited understanding of leadership in general and the state presidency in particular, I had a really eccentric fascination with the sight of a state president.
It was so weird because I actually thought that we ordinary citizens were mere mortals living on our president’s good grace hence we needed to patronize him lest he declared us surplus to requirements and eliminate us from the face of the earth.
Perhaps like most young rural inhabitants kept ignorant by the system, I considered the position of state president to be sacred and reserved for the few sired and anointed by God to rule Batswana on His behalf.
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