The Photographic section of the Department of Information Services is reach with black and white photographs of the founding president, Sir Seretse Khama. Out of hundreds or thousands photographs of him, none is out of focus and all tell the entire story without necessarily looking at the captions. In other words, all are beautiful and full of action. But there is one out of those many photos of that highly intelligent and charismatic leader which in my view is outstanding. It is marvelous. I had the opportunity to go through the files at that section when I was still the department’s employee. There were two ladies heading the department at the time.
Kebareng Solomon was the director. Maria Leshongwana was the deputy. One day, they decided to redeploy me from editorship of BOPA stories to that section as its head. I was worried then thinking that they were throwing me in at the deep end. I found out later that, that was not the case. It was an innocent and carefully thought of redeployment move. On arrival at the section as its head, I fell into the hands of highly disciplined professional photographers who were all cooperative. They included the likes of the Serangatos, the Yobes, the Thomis, the Gontles, the Mafelas, and the Goddies and so on. I went through the photo files in the computer and I came across very beautiful ones. The picture that caught my eye shows Sir Seretse walking majestically with his hands astride.
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