BCPWL betrays Bathusi

Bathusi PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG
Bathusi PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG

Botswana Congress Party Women’s League (BCPWL) has snubbed Daisy Bathusi in a recent nomination of candidates for vice presidency by endorsing a male politician, legislator Taolo Lucas for the position.

The decision was made recently in a tight nomination for candidates ahead of the party’s elective virtual congress billed for end of the month. The BCPWL might be entitled to its choice of candidates, but the organ has objectives that it has failed to meet.

The nominations also may not be the real elections, though are an indication of how BCPWL, the largest party organ by numbers, would possibly cast its votes. The BCP vice presidency is the highest position a woman politician has challenged in the party so far. In its decision to nominate a male, the BCPWL has failed dismally in its endeavour to empower women ahead of their dominant male counterparts under the belief that the male candidate is stronger than the female colleague.

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