Blancha: Providing scrutiny, oversight in Parly

He is a bit controversial, but he is definitely passionate about representing his constituents. Perhaps, Mabeo, affectionately known as Blancha, has to be different from others who have represented Gamalete before him because of the dictatorial manner in which constituents have been alternating between the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) and his party, the Botswana Congress Party (BCP), in particular.

Blancha’s approach to politics is on trial to test whether it will give him more than one term in Parliament, as others before him (with their conventional methods) failed to win the hearts and minds of hard-to-please constituents and secure more than one term in Parliament. Parties have been given a single five-year term in every election cycle, and this might prove a mountain to climb for Blancha and his team to change the constituency’s seemingly rigid mindset.