The year 2018 will go down in history as the year Botswana politics both within the ruling party and the opposition block went through turmoil and distress. The Big fallout The biggest political fallout has been between President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his predecessor Ian Khama. Since stepping down as the country’s fourth president, Khama has created another center of power causing tensions between him and Masisi. Khama has been going around villages addressing kgotla meetings and dishing soups, to the chagrin of the current administration who administered broadcasting blackout on him. The deep seated fallout played itself out when Khama served Masisi with Statutory Notice seeking the appointment of former Director General of Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DISS) Isaac Kgosi as his private secretary. Through his lawyers, Toteng and Company, Khama served government with a statutory in August this year demanding that Kgosi be appointed as his Senior Private Secretary within a reasonable time failing which he will institute review proceedings and seek an order declaring that President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s decision is unreasonable, irrational and unlawful and be set aside. In an interview with The Patriot on Sunday, Permanent Secretary to the President Carter Morupisi maintained that Government…