Sir Ketumile Masire's larger than life personality, who won insurmountable battles, must have foreseen his only defeat when he recently challenged his long time security detail, Malatsi Malatsi, with whom he had developed a very close and personal relationship to a duel. A clever man that he was, Masire must have foreseen his passing drawing closer when he crafted the duel such that whoever between them dies first would have won. According to Malatsi, shortly before his death Masire summoned him and declared a contest; "Monna Days, jaanong re mo racing, yo o tlaa itaang mogala pele o tlaabe a hentse" (Malatsi, now we are in a race, whoever touches the finishing line first would have won). Knowing the old man's artistic expression, Malatsi understood this to mean that because they were both aging whoever dies first would have beaten the other to the crown or won the race. Therefore Sir Ketumile's passing marked yet another victory for the former head of state. A source who worked closely with the Inter Congolese dialogue Secretariat says he recently bumped into Masire chatting to his bodyguard in a hardware store in Gaborone and quipped, "Dumela RraGaone, ona le rreMalatsi?". Joking about Malatsi's…