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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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