BCP withdraws UDC suspension matter

Dumelang Saleshando PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Dumelang Saleshando PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

Botswana Congress Party (BCP) this afternoon withdrew its case against the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC).

The court case emerged last year in the aftermath of the suspensions of BCP president Dumelang Saleshando, who was also then UDC vice president and BCP Secretary General (SG) Goretetse Kekgonegile.

The duo was slapped with suspensions for allegedly openly uttering disparaging and maligning statements about the coalition. At the time, the BCP and the UDC were locked in a bitter battle over the principles and values of democracy, good governance and constitutionalism.

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