BCP Warns Members Against Dirty Politics

Speaking during the BCP elective conference over the weekend, Rapelana said elections within the party are not supposed to be treated as if a member is contesting with an opponent from another party. “We could have learnt a lot from what happened to us as the BCP after the 2015 elective conference in Kanye. Use of certain words toward members that you are contesting with is not polite at all. We are a family and therefore let us be mindful of what we say to each other. After our congress in 2015, we lost some members that we needed most to the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) after the team that we were supporting lost.

As the party, we don’t want to experience the same trend this time around,” Rapelana said. She also requested the outgoing central committee members to continue to support the new committee for them to achieve their mandate. She said the outgoing members of the central committee could support the new ones by ensuring that they help them to build party structures, play a part in regions and constituencies. She continued: “This is our party and we must be proud of it, to witness it growing.