Nkate, Kokorwe plan a major BDP return

Friday, March 14, 2014

The scramble for key political positions within the ruling Botswana Democratic Party is heating up with some well known figures positioning themselves in the run up to the party’s 2015 elective congress.

Information reaching Mmegi suggests that former education minister and now Ambassador to Japan, Jacob Nkate and Botswana’s High Commissioner to Zimbabwe Gladys Kokorwe are among those hoping to re-launch their political careers come 2015.

Sources have revealed that some regions within the BDP are already intending to influence President Ian Khama’s decision on whom to choose for his vice president.

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