Mmolotsi, Mamela set the rally alight
Ryder Gabathuse | Wednesday April 20, 2016 15:31
The similarities are traceable to the manner in which they normally package their political presentations at freedom squares.
It’s common cause that in their endeavour to capture the attention of their followers, the two combine entertainment politics with bread and butter issues, spicing it up with politics of mudslinging and character assassination. They were in their element at a political rally near Block Five shops on Saturday.
The rally was meant to win the hearts and minds of Phillip Matante East ward voters ahead of the weekend ward by-election occasioned by the death of councillor Shadreck Nyeku. The UDC candidate is Uyapo Nyeku, the late Shadreck’s brother.
Mmolotsi told the rally that Botswana had reached a point where there was a need to change government. “A change of government will serve you well,” he told the ecstatic crowd. He said more than 70 percent youth in Phillip Matante East ward were jobless.
“The government should be creating jobs for the masses rather than seeing masses loitering the streets,” he said.
Instead of creating jobs, he added, the BDP government was blaming God for no jobs. He added that government hospitals were poorly maintained and under-resourced, hence unable to offer life-saving service.
He also said for 23 years, Batswana had been kept on the waiting list for residential plots. The list has since reached 20,000.
He warned Phillip Matante East residents that voting for the BDP would be a perpetuation of the social ills. He criticised the BDP for dumping operatives who served it faithfully for many years, among them former BPP councillor, Albert Mudanga, his sister Angelinah Sengalo and former cabinet minister Kebatlamang Morake.
“After all these people were abused and dumped, what are you really expecting from the BDP?” he asked.
Mmolotsi told his audience never to accept promises from the BDP because it had failed them many times. He said the BDP candidate, Peter Nare, was not worth the people’s votes.