An Emotional Butale �Cries� For Molefhi
Ryder Gabathuse | Monday July 10, 2017 15:37
As Molefhi addressed the media after his loss to Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi, Butale could not hold his emotions as his eyes quickly became wet with tears. He was visibly emotional as he used his finger to wipe what seemed like uncontrollable tears.
“When the results for the chairpersonship were announced, yes I got very emotional. I was emotional because we worked very hard for Molefhi and at the end of the day we got so little,” said Butale in an interview with The Monitor on the sidelines of the elective congress.
He however denied that he sobbed as a result of his team’s damaging reversal of fortunes. “I didn’t shed a tear,” he declared, albeit his emotions literally betraying him. His take was that he stopped crying a few years ago.
“Such a good man, a mighty man getting so destroyed, so to speak.”
Butale, like others, had invested his time and money. “It might not look like we put money, but the little that I put as a family, I don’t regret at all,” he gesticulated.
He was worried by the return, time and effort they had invested as a team that it should have been appreciated a little bit more by the democrats.
He also saw Molefhi as the best man for the job, “and yes I will support the VP Masisi for his chairpersonship role in the party going forward and this we have assured him (Masisi), more so as our Vice President.”
He emphasised that the party lobbylists should not be mistaken that those who stood against Masisi will not support him as it is enshrined in the party constitution for people to contest for party positions.
Out in the open space a youthful BDP choir from one of the Gaborone constituencies belted out an emotional song: “Domi phathi ya rona e feletse gone fa (which literally means our party BDP has ended here). “
This was after the chairpersonship race results were announced with Masisi having whitewashed his opponent Molefhi by garnering 769 votes to the latter’s 261. It was apparent that to the youthful Gaborone choir, like Butale, Molefhi was eyed as the right man for the job but the people disappointedly spoke otherwise.