Butale ponders next move

Butale was this week stopped in his tracks from returning to the helm of the party after being interdicted by the Lobatse High Court. Lobatse High Court's Justice Matlhogonolo Phuthego ruled in favour of the party's acting president, Caroline Lesang in a case in which she was challenging Butale’s claim to the presidency.

Lesang had asked the court to make an order interdicting Butale from convening, arranging, staging, chairing or presiding over any meeting of the NEC of the BPF and or any affiliates, organs or structures of the BPF. Butale was suspended as party president over allegations of sexual misconduct and later pardoned to return as an ordinary member. Before his interdiction by the court, he had been presenting himself as the party's president: one time during a press conference and recently at a political rally.