If the expulsions have restore order - so be it

Several members of cabinet have resigned in protest over Mbeki's resignation. Our hope is that what is seemingly a political crisis will die down with the passage of days.

With the ruling African National Congress having recalled its president Botswana's own Botswana National Front did not want to be out done. The BNF, which has always reminded all who care to listen that it, like the ANC and SWAPO in Namibia, is a mass movement made up of various interest groups. The BNF too claims to have generated policies that are deliberately left leaning. During the same week when the ANC national executive committee, which is largely made up of leftists made a decision to recall Mbeki, the BNF leadership too came out of its cocoon and flexed its muscles to expel some of its 'errant members'.