Please Khama, come home, stop badmouthing your fatherland

Hello Kgosikgolo. Having seen you brag this week about your rail adventures with Kgosikgolo Mswati of eSwatini, I know for sure this brief letter will find you in good health and good spirits even though I am not sure anymore about everything else. Of late I have been reading a lot of what you share on social media and even more on the things you have shared with the international community, and I must say from all these things you write and say, I see a man so troubled in thought. Mme kana Kgosikgolo ke a bo ke sale ke go kgalemetse from late 2018 into 2019 and 2020, gore just go to your farms, enjoy your retirement peacefully and leave politics le tshele to proven political hounds.

I warned you gore all the things you were doing then would not end well for you. Look at you now. Seriti se a gogoba; every Tom, Dick and Harry is pouring cheap scorn on you, right at your social media platforms. I wonder how you feel every time you read the kind of feedback people always give you nowadays. Had you taken heed of my advice in 2018, you would by now be commanding universal respect as a great statesman from both the rulers and the opposers. Now the rulers don’t give a damn about you and the opposers do not agree you deserve any respect. Only a few, for their own selfish reasons, believe you should be given a chance at Respect.

I again warned you in 2019 when you were out on a crusade to discredit your successor, that you will not win against a sitting president, even with your misguided sense of selfimportance. You ignored my counsel. Now how has your crusade against him benefitted you or the country thus far? See, you are in foreign land now – a whole army general with pistols in his pockets, running away on account of an unarmed school teacher? Lakunle? And all you can do now is to fight hard to see his and indeed YOUR own countrymen suffer thanks to your ongoing campaign to get European countries abandoning the locals who live with wildlife on a daily basis! Gore they lose the little they were making from controlled hunting, you don’t care Phuti.

Gore the too many animals in the vicinity of their homesteads kill them and destroy they crops, you don’t give a damn Kgosi yame. Imagine the amount of money our government is now wasting through that delegation of over 40 people trying to counter the repercussions of your campaign! And ga o simolole gone fa Phuti; you have over the years tried to remotely incite civil unrest in our country through your utterances, forgetting that when we fight and die here, none of your kinsmen would be harmed. And all because you hate one man! Rra wee, re tlogelele Tautona Masisi re tlaa mo ikentshetsa ka tlhopho, e seng bo turmoil ba o ratang go ba bua bao now that you realize gore your efforts to oust him through tarnishing his image have so far failed dismally. Kana I still recall vividly the day at a rally in Serorome, Palapye, a few weeks before the 2019 general elections, when you told the excitable crowd there that Botswana will experience a civil war if Masisi is voted into power. It was actually not the first time you shared such sentiments, and I kept warning you that by badmouthing him, you were only helping him garner sympathy votes from the non-aligned.

You even went as far as saying that should Masisi win the elections, you would immediately leave Botswana to live in another country – wena le Biggie Butale when he still saw a god in you. At least Biggie remains in the country while you, for different reasons other than the imaginary civil war you so wished upon this country, have decided to go and live in South Africa where you continue to incite global detestation upon Botswana, disregarding the repercussions of your selfish crusade on the ordinary citizens of this country.

You see, just like you Kgosikgolo, many of us are no fans of Mosau, but at least we respect the fact that he is the president of this country through a democratic process. Forget that baseless rigging hogwash, majority spoke in 2019, and your attempts – all of them – to turn people against him have failed, leaving you with all manner of stunts that only serve your interests and no other citizen’s. At the height of panic and Covid-19 deaths, you presented yourself as a Messiah who cared about Batswana more than the government, o claima to have secured vaccines for the country – go sena! Then there were those one-sided interviews with several media outlets where you were the victim, a hero and President Masisi a villain; then that letter to Ramaphosa reporting Masisi and Botswana; then the SANCO march in South Africa and your acknowledgement of it; then the letters to international community imploring them to take action against Botswana… so many of your ‘interventions’ that all served your selfish interests rather than those of the country.

Actually the word ‘selfish’ is a generous and considerate description of your conduct against the land of your father and forefathers. I have heard braver people use the term ‘narcissist’ to unpack the entirety of the human being that you are, and for some time I had refused to believe the word described you. I felt they were giving you too much credit. When I studied Literature, I came across mythical Greek stories on men such as Poseidon, Oedipus, Zeus and Narcissus among others.