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Innocent Selatlhwa
  • Presidency succumbs to national pressure

    In a rather interesting turn of events, the national leadership have decided to listen to the people. While the presidency has ignored comments by those querying the constitutional review process, the State Presidency Minister Kabo Morwaeng could not...

  • BPF members threaten court action over UDC stance

    The conflict has been brought to light through a letter addressed to the BPF's secretary-general, Lawrence Ookeditse, by Segadimo Legal Practice on behalf of their clients: Boatametse Nthobogang, Mmapula Tsholofelo Amos, Thabiso Tendani, and...

  • Proposed presidential benefits stir public outrage

    The same will also apply to the former vice president and their spouse and children. President Mokgweetsi Masisi, who has since expressed regret at conferring former president Ian Khama with additional retirement benefits, could face a revolt from...

  • Kgosi appeals against Pule’s Bulela Ditswe triumph

    Kgosi has served Tsholetsa House with a letter in which he raised an array of concerns regarding the recent BDP primary elections that took place in the constituency. The Assistant Minister for Local Government and Rural Development Mabuse Pule won...

  • Rigging allegations rock BPF elections

    The Monitor learnt that in Motetshwane Ward in the Serowe North constituency, while there were 601 voters on the roll, the total number of votes for council candidates was more than 800. The votes for the Parliamentary candidate were, however, not...

  • Impressive primary election turnout boosts BPF morale

    Confidence shot up after the party held its primary elections over the weekend and multitudes turned up to cast their votes. As expected, Serowe constituencies proved to have more BPF members than any other area as they came in large numbers and...

  • How Pule survived a ‘coup’

    Pule garnered 1, 472 followed by Lucas Kgosi’s 1, 363 votes and Pakiso Pule got a paltry 127 votes. Just before the elections were postponed to the following day owing to delay with voters’ rolls production, Pule and Kgosi met where the minister...

  • BPF to win all Serowe constituencies

    The Bagammngwato capital is made up of three constituencies, namely, Serowe South, Serowe North and Serowe West, which parliamentary seats are all occupied by the BPF. The party made history in the 2019 General Election winning all the seats without...

  • Justice Dingake calls for ‘proper’ constitutional review

    Dingake recently delivered a public lecture as part of Motheo O Mosha’s efforts to raise P500, 000 for initiatives aimed at addressing issues pertaining to the constitutional review process, which they have since said was not properly...

  • Marobela dumps BNF CC, slams leadership

    He laments in his detailed resignation letter the "poor leadership" which he accuses of ‘sleeping’ on the job. The BNF secretary for political education quit the party leadership last week ahead of the party’s annual conference that was held...

  • Rakgare calls for stiff punishment of land thieving politicians

    The Mogoditshane Sub Land Board has been on the spotlight over the controversial Compensation-In-Kind Policy. The Kweneng Land Board Chairman, Kgang Kgang, visited Mogoditshane Kgotla to discuss the Compensation-In-Kind Policy employed for land...

  • Domkrag 'invades' maternity wards

    In what could be seen as both a noble act of humanity or a good advertising strategy, the party’s women’s wing recently launched BDP branded merchandise targeting women and specifically for expectant mothers and newborn babies. The initiative was...

  • Gov’t, Bagammangwato tensions escalate

    Some members of Balwela Kgosi (a group made of Bagammangwato tribesmen and women fighting for Ian Khama) who had camped outside the Khama family home in Serowe over the weekend were denied a permit to march to the Kgotla by the Police. Determined to...

  • Khama’s return imminent

    They would on the day of the marathon invade the Kgotla with placards where they clashed with the police resulting in at least eight of them being arrested. They also claim some were brutalised. According to Balwela-Kgosi chairperson, their visit to...

  • Estate executor demands land back for unpaid balance

    Louisa Urquilla (in her capacity as Executor of the Estate of the late Johannes Welhemus Moller) wants to be a party in a case in which the trio is attempting to stop the transfer of a sale of a lucrative 1,730 hectares horticultural farm to a...

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