I�ve suffered enough, pleads Mamela :: Mmegi Online

FRANCISTOWN: After years of what he terms “sidelining and sabotage by voters”, Botswana Congress Party (BCP) Francistown South parliamentary hopeful, Vain Mamela made an impassioned plea on Saturday for the electorate to go out and support him in the general elections this year. Mamela made the plea when party president, Dumelang Saleshando, launched him over the weekend at the Chedu Choga grounds.

Mamela believes that over the years he has been subjected to “sabotage and sidelining by voters” in past general elections. He believes he was being punished solely for quitting the Botswana National Front (BNF) to co-establish the BCP in 1998. Mamela was the Francistown West MP from 1994 to 1998 under BNF before losing the seat in 1999 under the BCP. The constituency was divided into two, namely Francistown West and Francistown South after the delimitation exercise in 2003.

Mamela contested Francistown South under the BCP and lost twice in 2004 and 2009.

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