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Butale’s forced exit

Butale PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Butale PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

When the current court skirmishes between two litigious factions of the Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) come to their logical end, some of the party’s operatives might find themselves on accelerated path to their political destruction.

The party’s incessant in-and-out of court escapades speak to an organisation that cannot manage its challenges in-house and at worst, prefers to wash its dirty linen in public.

Even if former president Biggie Butale was an unwanted man in the party, there was a better way of dealing with his future in the party than going to court. For one, Butale could feel it that his time with the BPF was long up. The politician-cum-pastor used court injunctions to simply buy time instead of using his sense of discernment to pick his troubles.

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