BMD's student organ quits UB opposition coalition

Basco Student Movement for Democracy (BSMD), a Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) organ, has pulled out of a coalition of student movements representing opposition parties at the University of Botswana (UB).

The organs have been working on a strategy to fight next month's UB Student Representative Council (SRC) elections as a bloc.

With the BSMD out of the race, it means only the Mass-BNF, an organ of the Botswana National Front, and the University of Botswana Congress for Democracy (UBCD-BCP) will contest the upcoming SRC elections as a united force because the BSMD, just like the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP)'s GS26, will contest as individual entities. 

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