Bathusi pleads to make BCP more gender inclusive

Bathusi. PIC. KEOAGILE BONANG
Bathusi. PIC. KEOAGILE BONANG

Botswana Congress Party (BCP)'s Daisy Bathusi is vying for the  vice presidency (VP) where she is pitted against Bobonong legislator Taolo Lucas.  Of course, the VP role comes with enormous expectations but if she prevails, Bathusi will have the opportunity to begin a new era for women in the opposition BCP.

She can define what it really is to be the first woman in the BCP vice presidency position, empowering women to pursue careers in politics and creating new precedents for other political parties.

While negatively purported adjectives often force female politicians to be defined by their gender, Bathusi revealed in an interview this week that the main challenge she faces is that, as women they, are already under prejudice by society before they even walk into the room.

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