There is a newborn political baby, the Botswana Movement for Democracy. There is certainly a visible crack in the BDP. A new doubt has forced itself into our minds as a political equation and particularly so in the mind of the BDP itself. Its reaction will vary from a possible panic that may lead to friction and violence or to a sober realisation that times are changing.
There is a new urgency for political clarity and principled unity in action. Remember every party says "Ke nako!"And the question that remains to be answered is, "Ke nako for what?" Certainly not posturing. Yet with this new formation, what have we got? Some kind of reformist, messianic organisation of semi-religious posturers. Or are they real revolutionaries prepared to smash the edifice of their former state? That is unlikely because to do that they must turn Marxist, which they cannot. Secondly, there is no room for reform. The BCP is well-placed and thriving in that corner. Would they join the BCP or galvanise a merger between the BCP and the BNF? Can they provide the necessary glue? Now that they have formed a party of their own, they cannot be allowed to keep talking hard but acting soft. Are they a bat or a bird? It is scary to think the establishment of a new party may be the working of agent provocateurs. An action calculated to make our country descend quickly into heightened intolerance and political violence as the BDP overreacts to its loss. They seem to.
