Gobotswang: BCP’s primary parliamentary engine :: Mmegi Online

Tswapong South Member of Parliament, Dr Kesitegile Gobotswang must be a political ‘prophet’ of some sort. Armed with optimism and conviction after three times losing bids to win the Tswapong South constituency, the Sefhare-born politician found a prospect in the losses and vowed never to halt endeavouring. Writes Mmegi Staffer RYDER GABATHUSE

When his peers dismissed him as a bad loser, Botswana Congress Party (BCP) legislator soldiered on by adopting a slogan of hope, apparently borrowed from his former political home, Botswana National Front (BNF), commonly known as “Chibi che a kekela (Or roughly translated to a cow dung fire burns through slow, steady smouldering rather than a fast, blazing flare. Because the dried dung cakes are dense and packed with digested fibrous plant matter, they catch fire gradually, producing a long-lasting, low-heat ember that glows and releases thick, aromatic smoke instead of rapid flames).”

Gobotswang used the analogy of a slow-burning cow dung to send a message of hope to the constituents. He wanted them to institute change and unseat the then dominant Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from its stronghold since independence in 1966 until he was finally rewarded in 2014 after his three failed attempts.

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