The Umbrella for Democratic Change must surely be feeling used by the Alliance for Progresives

A new party has been born. This party, I gather goes by the name and style of Alliance of Progressives (AP) under the stewardship of Ndaba Gaolathe. It is a splinter group of the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD).

Its birth left a somewhat bitter taste to the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) for reasons to follow.

It is a well-documented fact that the Ndaba-led faction, whilst still under the BMD sought and got the intervention of the UDC. The intervention was necessitated by the fact that the BMD then, had two axis of power.

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Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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