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Galebotswe dismisses cease, desist letter

Gaolathe Galebotswe PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
Gaolathe Galebotswe PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

Member of the Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF), Gaolathe Galebotswe, has dismissed a legal letter requesting him to cease and desist from holding himself out as president of the party.

He confirmed receiving the letter in Palapye, where a BPF faction held a meeting. However, Galebotswe said he treated the correspondence as ‘fake’ since he was asked to respond to it on August 22, 2025, whilst the letter is dated November 21, 2025. “I do not know if it means August next year or not, or if the letter was long written,” he said. The letter written by BPF attorneys, Otto Itumeleng, warned that they may interdict Galebotswe if he did not desist from claiming to be the party president.

“Our instructions are to demand, as we hereby do, that you immediately cease and desist from holding yourself out as the BPF president on account of the several constitutional matters that we have raised above,” states the correspondence.

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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