BDP fires Masitara

The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has sensationally fired MP Robert Masitara and withdrawn his candidacy for the Bonnington North Parliamentary seat at yesterdays constituency meeting chaired by the Party Secretry General Mpho Balopi.

Masitara has been courting trouble with campaign pamplets calling his colleagues corrupt. Before this the Central Committee had slapped him with a summons to appear before President Ian Khama to account for undermining the Vice-President Ponatshego Kedikilwe when he demanded that he [Kedikilwe] as the former minister responsible for Morupule, should be prosecuted.

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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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