Lekang: From cleaner to council chambers

Friday, April 17, 2015

FRANCISTOWN: Dressed to the nines and tackling issues intelligently in the Francistown City Council chambers, nothing sets Florence Badubi Lekang apart from other civic leaders.

But, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) councillor has rags to riches story to tell.

It was not an easy road to the chambers. For 26 years, she donned overalls as a cleaner at the Institute of Health Sciences (IHS) in Francistown, while on the other side fighting to win political office to represent citizens of the country’s second city.

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