BPF’s rough road

The BPF is joining the rest of the local political formations, which bear multiple political scars from past experiences. In fact, all Botswana political parties have been exhibiting various behaviours and taking risks. Key to all these political trials and tribulations is how best they are managed to contain them, as there is life beyond all the brouhaha. In 1998, the main opposition Botswana Congress Party (BCP) was born in Palapye, a few kilometres from where the BPF held its tumultuous meeting. The main push out of the BNF was disagreements amongst the BNF head honchos who differed with Dr Kenneth Koma, the party’s founding leader.

It seems BDP splinter parties are cursed, as in the past, the 2010 splinter Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) further split, giving rise to the Alliance for Progressives (AP) after a bloody encounter in Bobonong, where the planned elective congress turned bloody. The BMD suffered permanent impairment as today it’s a complete shadow of itself.