Khama finally made his public move in October at a four – day kgotla debate at the Serowe kgotla, in which many called for the BPP to be banned within GammaBangwato as a threat to traditional order. Others, while expressing reservations about the BPP, spoke in favour of freedom of association, assembly and speech as part of a process of moving towards greater democracy. When he rose to speak on the last day, Khama appealed to both camps. In his speech he ‘agreed that the People’s Party was confusing the people and was out to cause dissension between the tribe, Government and white inhabitants of the Territory’. He therefore proposed that: ‘The people should unite and form an organisation with proper leaders which would be a power in the land and which would be able not only to stop the damage being caused by the People’s Party but which would be able to advise Government as to what should be done to further the interests of the Territory’

Sir Seretse Khama    Sir Ketumile Masire and          HE Festus G. Moage