Why Domkrag is declining?
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
This, in spite of the crowing by H.E President Ian Khama that the BDP can win all the 57 constituencies if BDP activists work as hard as he does. This aspiration was echoed by his two lieutenants, Mpho Balopi, Secretary General and the then party chairman Honourable Guma Moyo.
Guma Moyo we know has since turned heel and fled from the scene of party command and Balopi is deeply embroiled in theBulela ditswe mishmash. The Bulela ditswe imbroglio incidentally is a sure sign that the decline of Domkrag is irrevocable. The enormous victim of the fiasco we know was Honourable Minister Ndelu Seretse. It started with the kicking of the ballot box at some council ward. This incident gave Honourable Seretse a glimmer of hope that the trouncing that was evident in all the polling stations could be reversed.
The BDP as a party known to have ample resources has always held its primaries well in time, but this time around that was not the case. The first leg of the primaries was held last weekend, with the final leg being billed for the coming weekend. This time around, the BDP failed to shine in its primary elections. The elections were chaotic; most if not all polling stations didn't open at the specified time of 6am. Loyal BDP members braved the...