Butale’s doubtful prophecy :: Mmegi Online

When the man of the cloth cum-politician cum-attorney, Biggie Butale, helmsman of the new kid on the political block, the Botswana Republican Party (BRP) quit the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) for the newly formed political outfit in 2019, the Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF), it attracted all sorts of monikers, including the unpalatable ‘Judas Iscariot’ by the ruling party. Writes Mmegi Staffer RYDER GABATHUSE

Also an entrepreneur, Butale’s big fall out with a party of his youth (1992-2019) the BDP, was precipitated amongst others by his loss of the party ticket at the primaries for the 2019 General Election. His conviction was that his loss to a youthful politician, Simon Moabi Mavange, in Tati West constituency was just but the culmination of massive ‘rigging’. Up to this day, he still does not buy any notion that he had lost the BDP primaries.

When all the BDP systems seemed conniving against him, Butale found solace in crossing the floor to a party that was formed just on the eve of the 2019 General Election, the BPF, which is a splinter party from the ruling BDP. This is a party that was formed as a result of an irretrievably collapsed relationship between former president Ian Khama and incumbent President Mokgweetsi Masisi.

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