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BMD bloodbath still haunts AP

Gaolathe. PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Gaolathe. PIC MORERI SEJAKGOMO

SEROWE: The Alliance for Progressives’ (AP) recent congress was dominated by tales of the past, a reflection that the party was ‘borne out of violence’ when warring factions of the now extinct Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) exchanged stones and hauled dogs at each other at Bobonong in 2017.

After two then warring BMD factions, one led by Ndaba Gaolathe and Wynter Mmolotsi, and the other by Nehemiah Modubule and Gilbert Mangole, held separate congresses, the outfit eventfully split, leading to the formation of the AP.

‘We share a similar background,’ Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) secretary-general, Lawrence Ookeditse said as he reminded the AP about their troubled journey.

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