IEC blocks Dabutha from using purple

Dabutha lamented that after she was forced to abandon her first choice colour because of complaints by her former party, the IEC now wants her to dump the colour purple.

“At first they told me the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) president, Dumelang Saleshando had complained that I was using their party colour. Even though my green was different from that of the BCP. They told me to stick to the black and white in my symbol,” she said. Despite BCP complaining about Dabutha’s use of the green colour, Steven Sorinyana who quit the BCP to stand as an independent in Ramotswa in 2014 used the colour identical to the one Dabutha was using.