
Sir Ketumile Masire is no more. Exactly 92 years after he was born, former President Sir Ketumile Quett Joni Masire succumbed to illness at Bokamoso Private Hospital in Mmopane on Thursday night, after being confined to the ICU in a comma for four days. Though the family did not disclose the nature of his illness, sources said a blood clot had been found on his brain and was immediately operated on. As Botswana mourns its founding father, and the world celebrates the life of an exceptional statesman and democrat, many are in agreement that Masire was in the league of his own all the way to his last day on earth. With a great sense of humour and a rolling laughter that still reverberates through the ages, coupled with an incisive command of Setswana language, many share fond memories of how Masire used to hold his audience in awe and leave them in stitches. Born on July 23, 1925 in Kanye Sir Ketumile Masire has had a huge impact in the development of an independent Botswana and the Southern African region. The rural set up into which he was born dictated, as with many of his peers, that naturally agriculture…