As an idealistic first-term MP serving between 2014 and 2019, Duma Boko had a long wish list of what he wanted done differently. From the seemingly frivolous to the profound, what sounded like wishful thinking became reality on November 3, 2024 when the Umbrella for Democratic Change ousted the Botswana Democratic Party from official power.
Boko never cared much for the horse-hair wigs worn by High Court judges and speakers of Commonwealth parliaments. That became apparent when he congratulated Dr. Key Dingake when the latter was appointed High Court judge in 2005. Such appointment meant that Dingake would have to wear the judicial wig, a 17th century fashion item that gives black people a weirdly unnatural and funny look. Through his column in The Monitor, Boko urged Dingake to “lose” the wig.
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