You Can't Have Your Cake And Eat It - Khama

Monday, March 30, 2009

Members of cabinet will no longer be allowed to contest for positions in the Central Committee of the Botswana Democratic Party, according to a national council resolution passed on Saturday at the Maharaj conference centre in Gaborone.

Neither will Central Committee members be permitted to sit in cabinet.

This will be read as a momentary victory over the Barata Phati faction, led by Daniel Kwelagobe which is fiercely opposed to the idea on the grounds that it runs counter to the constitution of the party.

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You Can't Have Your Cake And Eat It - Khama

Members of cabinet will no longer be allowed to contest for positions in the Central Committee of the Botswana Democratic Party, according to a national council resolution passed on Saturday at the Maharaj conference centre in Gaborone.

42 out of 45 bodies of Limpopo bus crash victims identified

Selefu

Selefu

Civil Society threatens court action over constitution amendment

Fans urged to fill up stadium

Coaches take jabs ahead of derby

A city divided!

Civil Society threatens Masisi with legal action

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