Lekang: From cleaner to council chambers

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.

Editor's Comment
A step in the right direction

It has only been a month since the newly elected government, the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), took power, and there are already a lot of changes. Across different ministries, ministers are hard at work. Following heavy rainfall and storms that hit Francistown recently, the Minister of State Presidency, Moeti Mohwasa, made a commitment that government will assist those affected by the heavy rains. Mohwasa, when addressing the media in...

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