Expel the expeller, BPF’s entrenched pattern :: Mmegi Online

What began as a power struggle between party factions has evolved into a bizarre pattern of retaliation, a revolving door of suspensions, expulsions, and counter-expulsions that has reduced the Botswana Patriotic Front’s (BPF) internal politics to a soap opera, writes Mmegi staffer SPIRA TLHANKANE

The BPF has developed a peculiar political culture where those who expel others today often find themselves expelled tomorrow. The latest episode aired this past weekend when the man who won a disputed election, Lawrence Ookeditse’s faction, revoked the membership of Mephato Reatile, the very man who, only hours earlier, had expelled him and his allies from the same party.

This “expel-the-expeller” dynamic has become the defining feature of the BPF’s tumultuous internal life, with almost every leadership dispute ending in a round of expulsions followed by a court battle.

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Expel the expeller, BPF’s entrenched pattern

What began as a power struggle between party factions has evolved into a bizarre pattern of retaliation, a revolving door of suspensions, expulsions, and counter-expulsions that has reduced the Botswana Patriotic Front’s (BPF) internal politics to a soap opera, writes Mmegi staffer SPIRA TLHANKANE

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