Goodhope/Mabule vote reaches fever pitch

GOODHOPE: Members of the three political parties contesting Saturday's by-election in the Goodhope/Mabule constituency turned the area upside down yesterday with frenetic last minute campaigns in a bid to win the hotly contested seat.

Yesterday, Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) president, Duma Boko descended on the area in a helicopter hired to enable the opposition coalition to tour the expansive constituency, while elsewhere, Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) functionaries conducted ‘scorched-earth’ house to house campaigns.