Sir Seretse Khama was educated (as an optometrist) in a specialist college of further education in the UK, not at a military college such Sandhurst, and not at a university.

It is a bit of a straw man argument really. Botswana does well because it has a tiny population drawn mainly from one tribe and some great natural resources. Debswana run the country, moldbug would surely approve? This is a working example of his government as business, in Africa no less.

It is not an example for the rest of Africa, unless we are willing to break up the ridiculous post colonial states into business sized units.

As for the murder rate for among SAf white farmers, the only references for the 313 number (which I can only imagine to be cumulative rather than per anum) I can find are from the farmers themselves and their on-line advocates. Specialists probably know more of this dynamic than I do, but here’s the wikipedia page on attacks against white farmers and the multiple representations of them.

Well, yes, unless one counts the AIDS epidemic, which is rendering (the already sparsely-populated) Botswana almost desolate.

And Sir Seretsa Khama did not have a White mother, but a White wife.

Diamonds, actually, have been Botswana’s salvation. Without the bling, Botswana’s gross domestic product, like the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, would have been death by starvation, and its principal export, refugees. (cf. Mozambique, Tanzania, Chad, Somalia, etc etc etc.)

I realize that, as a racist, I should favor the English-mother interpretation.

But what’s really ironic is that Botswana, the “democratic” “success story” of Africa, has pretty much the same relationship with De Beers that Guatemala once had with United Fruit. Plus a dose of Verwoerd-style traditional leadership camouflaged as democratic party. (Botswana is a one-tribe state as well as a one-party state – and the Khamas are its traditional chiefs.)

Naturally, all this proves that “independence” in Africa can work. Hypocrisy, thy name is academia.

Does this guy mean Marcus Samuelsson? He’s originally from Eithiopia; East African, not West.

I travelled extensively throughout the 90’s through Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa and Botswana, and saw all this first hand many many times.

It took KK 25 years to destroy Zambia, Uncle Bob 25 years to destroy Zimbabwe, how long do we give South Africa under the ANC?

Botswana is the one glaring exception to this human tragedy, the destruction of so many lives and the blighting of generations. Of course it would have nothing to do with the ruling class rejecting socialist progressive policies but instead governing with the mandate of the royal family and engaging in real improvements in the infrastructure, health and education services.

Maybe President Khama’s English mother has been a good influence? Or perhaps his education by the British military rather than American socialists? Maybe it is the total domination of the country by one tribe? Maybe its the diamonds?