Masisi and Khama need our prayers
I once wrote an article about the feud between President Masisi and former President Khama where I argued that the two should be left alone to solve their issues. Unfortunately, whatever has gone wrong between them is affecting us as a nation and we cannot ignore the fact that as a nation we are now divided. My take is that we will always guess and presume to know what went wrong, but the two statesmen and God only know the truth. This is not a fight where two long time friends are fighting over a girl and they decide not to talk to each other and life just goes on. In short, this is not a “Tom and Jerry” sketch. We are talking here of the current head of state and the former president. The two men command powerful positions whether we like it or not. This must not be taken lightly. Some people encourage and enjoy seeing the feud going on for their own political gain, which is very sad. In other countries, economies collapsed and innocent blood was shed when two heavyweight figures didn’t see eye to eye. We should do our best to avoid such a scenario by praying and hoping there will be peace between them, so that the nation is also at peace. These are no ordinary citizens. They are our first citizens. This might be beyond us but definitely not beyond God. This is why we must pray and leave it all in His mighty capable hands. Ours is to pray.
Some people have become so angry towards each other that even jokes make no sense. I wish the authorities would instruct our media houses to play more of soothing gospel music to the angry souls in our society in order to lift the broken spirits; because we have seen and dealt with severe issues like job losses, high inflation and poor economy, all of which have been caused by the deadly Coronavirus pandemic.
We all are wishing for a better Botswana and we can only achieve that if we have peace and tolerance towards each other. Like my learned friend and brother, the internationally recognized Justice Key Dingake once said, and I paraphrase “happy nations are made and built of good leadership that tolerates and respects each other, even the man sweeping the streets. That brings smiles and happiness to its citizens even in the most challenging times.”
Lastly I wish to thank God for keeping and protecting my own parents in these hard times and all other senior and elderly people from all corners of our country who I also regard as my parents in one way or the other. In these hard and challenging times, where diseases are incurable, these are the people from whom we get wisdom and genuine love. We should always cherish them.
We are living in times where we’re often reminded not to drink and drive, always to use a condom, wash our hands or sanitize and always to keep our social distance. Truth be told, boring life indeed but that’s the only way to survive.
My fellow citizens, it is the festive season and I know we have missed celebrating with our families and friends for about two years now. But the forth wave of COVID- 19 is here. Think of those we’ve lost and be a responsible citizen by adhering to all the advice from our authorities. If we get too excited and do as we wish February and March next year might be worse than last year. This was said by my friend doctor Mananana based in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Compliments of the season and hope all of us will be here at this time next year. Let’s have a prayerful festive season and pray for our leaders, our country and for each one of us. With God we can beat this. We may differ politically, spiritually and otherwise, but we are one big family belonging to one God.