Goya, Ramogapi tussle: More than homeboys ordinary clash

It will be more than an ordinary homeboys' political rivalry when Moiseraele Master Goya and incumbent legislator, Onneetse Ramogapi meet in an impending repeat of the 2019 parliamentary clash in the 2024 general election. That is when the opposition parties Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) and Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) respectively met. Mmegi Staffer RYDER GABATHUSE writes that if this clash materialises, it will be a true clash of the titans

FRANCISTOWN:  It will now seemingly take a miracle to avert a political duel of the opposition parties in Palapye after the area’s former legislator, Goya declared his intention to “finish off where he had left off.”

Goya, a former member of the President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s cabinet who failed re-election in the 2019 general election, recently made his intentions known when he was welcomed into his new BPF home.

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