Manifestos, not insults please!
Friday, August 30, 2019
Whether textual or electronic, whatever we share with you represents exactly what our leaders say. They say what they want you to hear and believe you would approve and thereby cast votes in their favour.
Quite frankly, it is not that the electorate relish in hearing politicians using foul language during campaigns. Therefore we to take this opportunity to call on political leaders, followers, and indeed all Batswana to shun this uncouth and barbaric behaviour that has lately found its way into our political discourse.
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...