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Power of money in BDP politics

Friday, August 25, 2017
The BDP chairperson Masisi and Camp Dubai
The BDP chairperson Masisi and Camp Dubai

Buoyed by the public’s right to know about financial backers of the dominant Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s faction popularly known as Team Dubai because of its affluence, over a month later, Mmegi Staff Writers RYDER GABATHUSE & INNOCENT SELATLHWA are still on the trail of the source of money splashed at the Botswana Democratic Party’s (BDP) 37th elective congress in Tonota

Money indeed makes the world go round. On the flipside, it is the same money that stands accused as a source of many evils.

It is because of money that politics has now become big business. Essentially, politics has become a game of men and women of means.

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