"They believe in me looking at the qualities I have as a leader. I hate to fail people and if you give me a job, I want to see it done," the 56-year-old politician said yesterday. For the next two and a half years she will be the driving force in GCC. She is the first BDP mayor, after two decades of Botswana National Front (BNF) hegemony. "It is very exciting for me to be mayor after this long control by the opposition. It is even more exciting that most of the councillors are from the ruling party and the opposition is the minority. It will be easy to work with them to deliver on the projects. We will include those from the opposition in our decision making," she explained.
She pointed out that from 1984 to 1989, she was a councillor for Tsogang ward, while she worked for Botswana Diamond Valuing Company. She left the company last year voluntarily to concentrate on politics. "Since then I have been working with the people at the ward, not like I was starting to work with them but I became very active like never before. I held the position of BDP secretary for the Gaborone Region before taking over the chairmanship when the then chairperson Gomolemo Motswaledi was suspended. This is the position I am holding to this day," Lesole said. She is a very familiar face among BDP members in Gaborone. She has been a member of the Political Education and Elections Committee of the party. She said the committee is largely responsible for the party's win in the elections especially in Gaborone.
