Gaborone - There's a story supporters of Botswana's President Ian Khama tell, which, while maybe embellished a little, gives a flavour of his leadership style,The story goes that Khama arrived unannounced one day in a rural hospital on one of his regular spot check-ups on service delivery.
Seeing a patient lying on the floor he is said to have marched on the matron's office to demand an explanation. Lo and behold, the matron is caught napping on the job but Khama instead of waking her, stands there waiting for her to wake up and face the music.
Ian Khama is nothing if not a man of action.
Since becoming president without a contest last year when former president Festus Mogae retired, the former vice-president has reshuffled his cabinet several times, created a new spy agency, issued a string of presidential directives and locked horns with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
A military man to his core, Lieutenant General Ian Khama, as his title appears carved in wood on his desk, makes no bones about his disciplinarian approach with underperforming officials and party dissenters.
"There has to be order," he told the German Press Agency
