Masisi mourns losing Cabinet colleagues

President Masisi greeting some of his cabinet members during his arrival from China PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES
President Masisi greeting some of his cabinet members during his arrival from China PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

FRANCISTOWN: President Mokgweetsi Masisi has this week vented out his frustrations on the calibre of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) candidates for the 2019 general elections.

Giving a keynote address at the 15th National Business Conference (NBC) Masisi could not hide it that he was “mourning with some of my Cabinet colleagues who have lost in the party’s Bulela Ditswe primary elections”.

It was just after the President had settled at the Adansonia Hotel, the venue of the premier conference, and had hardly finished introducing some of his Cabinet colleagues that he started his debate that has since gone viral on social media.

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