BCP primaries show funding democracy defeciencies
Monday, October 09, 2023 | 440 Views |

BPC members waiting to vote at Ramotswa PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
The voting process across the country highlighted the challenges faced by the BCP electoral board, revealing lapses in protocol. There were delays in some areas, with election officers arriving late at polling stations and in the process causing disruptions.
In Gamalete, for instance, voting commenced at 8am instead of the scheduled 6:30am. The reason provided was the need to travel to Gaborone, which is less than 50km away, to collect the ballots.
For a fact, in a democratic society such as Botswana, the media plays a crucial role of being watchdog, holding the powerful to account and exposing all possible wrongdoing for the benefit of the public.There has been a nagging question about who watches the watchdog after all? Perhaps, the investigations into alleged wrongful acts implicating those supposed to be playing the watchdog role will shed more light into what has happened such that the...