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BPF should put its house in order

Botswana’s political history is replete with apt illustrations of what can befall a political party that finds itself incessantly at war with itself.

There are many examples including that of the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD), another splinter party from the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP).

It (BMD) literally fell from grace to grass. Even its offspring, the Alliance for Progressives (AP) would later surpass it. For some time, the BMD was almost defunct without political activity until Nehemiah Modubule and others took the initiative of resuscitating the fortunes of a fallen giant without success.

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The Boko-led administration has to tread carefully

‘When you make peace withyourself, you make peace with the world’- Maha GhosanandaThis may come at a huge cost if not handled properly. What started off on Labour Day in Letlhakane this year, where Boko was in attendance when the militant lawyer-cum-trade unionist, Robert Rabasimane rebutted the President’s address in defence of the trade union has seemingly spiralled out of control. The issue is now creating a cat-and-mouse type of a...

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