The BMD dilemma: Realign or disintegrate?

A splinter party of the BDP, BMD was perhaps the most talked about political formation, its messaging hit home, its energy was new, young and vibrant, and it could’ve easily become the main opposition political party or the next government.

BMD’s future was to be written in history. For the first time in decades, in my view Botswana’s political landscape had nuance, a varied array of intellectual discourse driven mainly by a young crop of anti-establishment (read anti-Khama) activists that were ready and willing to change the status quo.