Of BMD, Pilane and the media

Thursday, December 07, 2017

Following attacks on journalists by the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) president, Sidney Pilane, the Botswana Media and Allied Workers Union (BOMAWU) and Editors Forum took drastic action on Tuesday to boycott the party’s activities.

Pilane first took pot shots at the media after the party’s violent Bobonong congress. On Tuesday morning, after his Matshekge Hills Senior Secondary School elected leadership was endorsed at the congress re-run in Lobatse, he returned to a radio interview to launch another attack on journalists.

Before then, in Lobatse, Pilane refused an interview with a reporter from The Voice after he “jokingly” threatened to bomb the paper.

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