Kuchwe changes teams after 30 years,

Friday, August 08, 2014

After 30 years as a Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) activist, it took just a few minutes for Chibuya Peter Kuchwe to jump ship and find a home in the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) where he is now.

An announcement by personnel who were counting the votes in the BDP’s Tati East primaries last year, convinced the 57-year-old farmer and entrepreneur to leave the democrats and seek a new home.

Kuchwe found out he had lost to Samson Moyo Guma in an election the now UDC man says was fraught with irregularities and “cheating”.

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Kuchwe changes teams after 30 years,

After 30 years as a Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) activist, it took just a few minutes for Chibuya Peter Kuchwe to jump ship and find a home in the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) where he is now.

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