BDP battles for survival

BDP members
BDP members

FRANCISTOWN: The year 2015 was not particularly a good year for the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). The BDP encountered many depressing situations. It latched from one problem to another.

The BDP lost all the six by-elections held including the highly contested Goodhope-Mabule parliamentary by-election where the President Ian Khama’s right hand man, Eric Molale, lost dismally to the Umbrella for Democratic Change’s candidate, Barolong royal, Kgosi Lotlamoreng II.

The party fired some of its secretariat staff members, which observers said were given the boot because they were pro-Botsalo Ntuane’s reforms.

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Justice served, but healing must follow

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