The significance of radio debates in the 2014 elections campaign!

This time we have had radio debates constituency by constituency not only on Radio Botswana, the state radio station, but on private radio stations specifically Gabz FM. Very welcome indeed!

Gabz FM radio station programme sponsored by the American Embassy in Botswana, supported by the British Embassy, Europcar and BOFEPUSU has been a fantastic programme, only slightly undermined by the ruling BDP petulant boycott.  If there ever was any need for evidence to prove the ruling party fears competition against opposition parties like the plague, this was it! Of course the basic evidence has always been the fact that the BDP has been snug like a bug in a rug, monopolising the state media: Btv, Radio Botswana and the Daily News; selfishly accessing the electorates in the remotest areas.