
President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s latest Cabinet reshuffle brought with it changes which some observers say were inevitable. One such is the deployment of Serowe North Member of Parliament Tshekedi Khama from the Environment, Natural Resources, Conservation and Tourism to the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sports and Culture Development. Khama has since been replaced by specially elected MP Kitso Mokaila who has been transferred from the Ministry of Transport and Communications. While the move has been received with pomp and ceremony from some quarters, especially because there has been debate that Khama and his elder brother, the former president Ian Khama have big tourism business interests and were running the ministry’s operations to favour their interests some observers feel the latest reshuffle is in fact insignificant, that Mokaila and Khama are birds of the same feather whose modus operandi is almost similar. In fact Mokaila is not a stranger to the position. He was in the former president's inner circle and was appointed the Minister of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism by the former, a move which some observers says showed the amount of trust he had in him as this was one of his key ministries. He served in the position for…