BNF eyes growth, prosperity, vibrancy
Innocent Selatlhwa | Tuesday November 15, 2022 06:00
The gathering held in Mogoditshane was attended by the CC, Women’s League Committee, Youth League Committee, Members of Parliament, Councillors and regional and constituency secretaries. The Leadership Forum discussed and adopted the 'BNF Strategic Plan' titled, Regime Change Through Partnerships For Genuine Democracy. “The strategic plan analyses the political environment in Botswana and projects strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the party. It further outlines BNF's vision, mission, strategic goals, values and a plan for accomplishing such or implementation. It is a blueprint for organisational transformation of the BNF to attain growth, prosperity and vibrancy,” reads a statement from the BNF secretary-general, Ketlhalefile Motshegwa.
As per the strategic plan, the Vision statement is, “BNF is a political vanguard for socio-economic transformation and prosperity for all” and the Mission statement stands as “BNF exists to advocate for a just, inclusive and equitable society”. The BNF values are social democracy; good governance; membership centred; unity; self-reliance; gender, equity and inclusivity. The BNF strategic goals are; to improve and build accountable leadership in the BNF; to drive growth in the BNF through a membership recruitment drive; to mobilise financial resources and ensure effective use of the BNF highly-skilled, technical and professional members; to use political education to develop a culture of sustained peace, discipline and inner democracy; to develop a more robust and multifaceted communications and marketing strategy; to mobilise and organise opposition parties into a strong and formidable UDC. Called for clarity on the UDC point, Motshegwa said they would “train all BNF leaders in coalition politics and how to reconcile UDC with affiliate party programmes; identify and develop a cadre for advocating coalition strategies among political parties; develop a deliberate strategy to decentralise UDC decision making structures and drive inter-opposition party relationship building and mobilise international fraternal support and assistance for coalition building and management".
Motshegwa said the forum further dialogued on preparation for the 2024 General Elections and received reports from the regions. He said the forum was informed that the executive committee meets every two weeks and that the central committee meets as per its schedule, is united and is focused on delivering its mandate. Members were urged to remain focused on organisational unity, regard for each other, activism to recruit and mobilise at their structures, continue exposing socio-economic failures of the BDP and provide policy alternatives offered by the BNF and the UDC.