When addressing the media on Friday, BNFYL secretary general Osenotse Mabote said the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) regime cannot stop the students’ revolution even if it resorted to police brutality or intimidation of the students. He said that they fully supported tertiary students in their quest for justice and social welfare. “It is with utmost shame to report to the world that June 16 has resurrected here in Botswana. The apartheid police are no longer white people, but blacks wearing red uniform beneath their blue uniform and they are brutalising and sjamboking innocent tertiary students at the command of President Ian Khama’s BDP-led Government. As the struggle continues, the BNFYL fully supports all tertiary students in their quest for justice and social welfare,” he said.
Mabote further said the BNF constitution mandated them to fully support students movements in Article F that stated that the party must promote and strengthen mass democratic organisations such as trade Unions, women’s and student organisations and others. He added that their party has a social democratic policy called education and training that emphasised the importance of education.
