Isaac Makwala and his peers mentioned among the country's successful personages
The Pan Afrikanist Watchman
Dubai, Saturday, March 12, 2022
Botswana and Batswana are “a unique value proposition”, President Dr. Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi has told a welcome cocktail for Team Botswana that is participating at the Expo2020 Dubai.
The event held in the evening of Saturday 12th March 2022 at St. Regis, The Palm hotel in Dubai, UAE, preceded today’s Botswana National Day, at which Botswana will showcase her best in every facet of life to the world.
President Masisi seized the opportunity provided by the cocktail to exalt young Batswana, who have lately demonstrated a remarkable capacity for success, describing them as a “unique concept”, that needs to be cherished, applauded, and grown.
Accompanied by five ministers, Peggy Serame, Dr. Lemogang Kwape, Mmusi Kgafela, Karabo Gare and Tumiso Rakgare, as well as heads of parastatals and captains of industry – Masisi diverted from the hackneyed sales pitch that places diamonds, beef, and tourism, above people when telling the Botswana story.
Instead, he charted a new course, extolling the enigma and resilience that has lately come to define Batswana young people and their capacity for success as they compete and raise the blue, white and black banner in international competitions.
Among these luminaries, the President singled out beauty queens -former Miss Universe Mpule Kwelagobe; the Kaone Kario of the Nokia Face of Africa fame and Miss World finalist, Palesa Molefe, as well as the athletic heroine and heroes, Amantle Montsho, Isaac Makwala, and Nigel Amos in the track and field sports.
Indeed, these young people’s “capacity for success” in their chosen fields as they compete in the international arena, has proven without a shadow of a doubt that Botswana and Batswana are “a unique value proposition”, President Masisi enthused.
Of the former Miss Universe, the President waxed lyrical about “a young little girl – Mpule Kwelagobe, yes!” while for the country’s first-ever female Olympian, he described a young chiselled lady called Amantle Montsho.
Amantle, he said, had even “redefined digital technology and bidding in the grace of her speed and the majesty of her nostrils” as she sucked in the oxygen again and Botswana powered pula!
But it was for the “enigmatic solo runner”, Isaac Makwala, that Masisi reserved the best praise. He said that consistent with our dictates and creed of peace-loving and peacekeeping, Makwala chose “not to stir the waters” of the international athletic community, but yes, asked the world to ‘bring it on, and I, Isaac Makwala will race against the air on my own”.
He described Nigel Amos as a young lad that is talented brutely on track ……
“And yes, we have the current international sensation, a complete redefinition of beauty and grace, the enigmatic, elegant, divine Palesa Molefe!
“Preceding her we had a young lady, crimson and dark in complexion, short and kinky hair, crystal clear eyes, and boy, a penetrative attraction – Kaone Kario”!
The icing on the cake was when the president promised that they would do, or dare to surpass the feat that Dubai has achieved with her oil, by doing what has never been done with Botswana’s glittering, gorgeous, rare, unique, authentic, original, and organic diamonds.
It is these rare and precious stones that have sustained the county from its foundations post-independence to the present as well as the “our contagiously sumptuous beef”, and “our unmatched tourism offering”.
Masisi said Botswana and her tourism product is a place where God decided to not only repose our diamonds and other minerals but also chose to repose the biggest mammals on earth in the biggest quantity in a land with the least water of all for us to manage for the world.
