A trendsetter, a revolutionary :: Mmegi Online

She is a trendsetter, one of the few women politicians in positions of influence. In addition to being the first woman chairperson of a political party in Botswana, Motsei Rapelana is also the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) shadow minister of presidential, constitutional affairs and public administration.

Outside political activism, the BCP candidate for Gaborone North is the deputy director of academic services at the University of Botswana. She has been instrumental as a policy shaper in the university Administration.

But it is in opposition politics that Rapelana has always been a force to be reckoned with. In fact, when the BCP broke away from the Botswana National Front (BNF) in 1998, she was the first name on the members’ registration list. She was then elected the deputy secretary general of the new movement.

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