BDP youth factions headed for showdown

The BDP youths aligned to the Barata-Phathi faction are said to have spent the past four weeks trying to come up with a list of candidates for the NYEC positions. However they failed, hence it was decided they will go and slug it out in the open. Unless something happens, the faction would go to the congress with two lobby-lists, one headed by current NYEC Chairman Armstrong Dikgafela and the other led by Bontsi Monare.

Dikgafela, who stood for a council seat at the Village ward in Gaborone Central during the 2009 general election, has said that he wants to continue as NYEC chairman to represent the voice of the youth on national issues. He said he would not be a lackey of the party leadership.