Death report won't bring back Sir G

The family of the late Gomolemo Motswaledi - the former Secretary General of Umbrella for Democratic Change and leader of Botswana Movement for Democracy - is not interested in his death report. The accident report has been a hot potato in the UDC and the nation, with calls for the report to be made public. Yet, somehow, the family of the fallen hero does not seem perturbed by the noise around the report.

Speaking to The Midweek Sun in an interview, family representative Gape Motswaledi said that as a family they believe that God protects a person for as long as he wants to use them. “The moment he allows termination of your earthly life, we perceive it to mean that one has completed his course. Therefore, as a family we are not interested in the report because it does not bring resurrection,” Motswaledi said.

Sir G died along the A1 road between the villages of Ramatlabama and Pitsane after which his party comrades cried foul over his death and instituted a private investigation whose final report is yet to be made public. The family’s non-interest in the report could shatter the hopes of many who hoped for an answer. His comrades had strongly speculated that Sir G was assassinated by the state agents in a political move meant to neutralise the opposition coalition of the UDC which gave the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) a rare scare in the past general elections.

It remains to be seen as to whether the report will be made public by either Ndaba Gaolathe or Duma Boko as the two have since gone separate ways following the formation of Alliance for Progressives (AP), a new political party led by Gaolathe. The Motswaledi family has since shifted their allegiance from Boko’s UDC to AP, something which will help them find closure since their son was a close friend of the AP leader.