What has 2011 got in store for political parties?

Just a few months after the 2009 general elections, there were so many things that happened and helped change the political landscape of the nation.

Who would have predicted that one of Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) sons, Botsalo Ntuane, would become Leader of Opposition by the end of last year?  The story of the year was no doubt the birth of the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD), after the BDP split.  This was for the first time that BDP faced such a split as some of its parliamentarians defected to the new party.