Chronicle of a new dawn - Part 1

A year  ago, when the 10th parliament convened  in its  first session  following the general elections,  very few would  have predicted  the realignment of political  forces which today, for the  first  time  since the  founding of  the Republic, manifests itself  by  a representative of a breakaway  formation of the ruling party addressing  parliament as  Leader  of  Opposition.

The circumstances  that  led to the  genesis of the BMD (Botswana Movement for Democracy) are a matter of common  knowledge. The break-up of the BDP (Botswana Democratic Party) was inevitable the moment it dawned on some of us  that the fundamental values of the  organisation to which we had committed our lives, were falling victim to an alien doctrine of authoritarianism, persecution and exclusion.