BDP central committee members to resign?

The latest political fissure follows the controversial election of the new Secretary General at the party central committee meeting on Monday.

Thato Kwerepe, who has all along been an additional member of the committee that was elected at the Kanye congress in July, was on Monday elevated to be the party top scribe following the five-year suspension of Gomolemo Motswaledi. Kwerepe has all along been a member of the Barata-Phathi faction but was on Monday pitted against Wynter Mmolotsi, a fellow Barata Phathi member for the vacant post of Secretary General. With the support of A-team central committee members and possibly two members of Barata-Phathi the meeting voted Kwerepe over Mmolotsi who was the faction's anointed choice. Members of Barata Phathi have been left wondering whether the top leadership of the party has now infiltrated the solid team that swept to victory in Kanye.