BDP in tinder hooks

BDP veterans, Masire and Mogae
BDP veterans, Masire and Mogae

The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has lost its former glory. With Just 46 percent of the popular vote, the BDP needs to re-engineer its systems and policies that have become the discontent of many of its members - and its bane.

A major issue that has haunted the BDP is factional fighting.

Until Seretse Khama’s death in 1980 the party had not known factions and resultant instability that has become the hallmark of the BDP. 

Editor's Comment
A step in the right direction

It has only been a month since the newly elected government, the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), took power, and there are already a lot of changes. Across different ministries, ministers are hard at work. Following heavy rainfall and storms that hit Francistown recently, the Minister of State Presidency, Moeti Mohwasa, made a commitment that government will assist those affected by the heavy rains. Mohwasa, when addressing the media in...

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