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Guma targeted BPF presidency

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Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) leadership has failed to manage differences amongst its executives allowing issues to fester to the last order. Writes Mmegi Staffer RYDER GABATHUSE

From the moment he returned to the country after a sojourn in South Africa, Samson Moyo Guma’s abrupt appearance at the Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF), a breakaway party from the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) changed the complexion of the party whose president, Biggie Butale was on a long suspension following an alleged misconduct.

It seems for the longest time, there were no major decisions made at the BPF under Caroline Lesang as then helmsman. There was no brave politician within the party’s ranks who could shake things up until the arrival of Guma.

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