BDP�s red berets �cool� brigade
Friday, April 11, 2014
Andy Boatile, BDP Youth League president
Many BDP members were seen at the party’s last weekend special congress doning the red beret with a white jack symbol. Among those sporting the famed headgear were party-hopping MPs Botsalo Ntuane of Gaborone Bonnington South and South East South’s Odirile Motlhale as well as Fidelis Molao of Tonota North. Others were, the chubby BDP Youth League president, Andy Boatile and MacDonald Peloetletse, famed for religious defence of the ruling party radio call-in programmes.
With his theme of 'Delivering on Our Promise, One Step at a Time', he sought to project an image of a focused, determined leader building a new ‘Rome’. Sadly, parts of his speech were not about laying bricks, but about settling old scores.It is deeply worrying that a head of government would use such a pivotal national address to launch another bitter broadside against the media and his political detractors. His portrayal of the...