How Kgosi reformed �Hardrock� to �sta soft�

Boko and Lotlamoreng celebrate with other UDC members. PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
Boko and Lotlamoreng celebrate with other UDC members. PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE

Despite predictions that the Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration, Eric Molale had won the race before it even started, Kgosi Lotlamoreng proved his mettle a few days before the by-elections.

After flying around in a hired chopper with the leader of the opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), Duma Boko, Lotlamoreng managed to even the game at the last minute.

When the mighty Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) took advantage of its incumbency by using state resources to campaign in the Goodhope/Mabule constituency, the UDC used its own resources. Amongst its strategies, the BDP deployed cabinet ministers and backbenchers to campaign for Molale.

Editor's Comment
Mr President, we hear you, but...

His take is that Members of Parliament (MPs) should be taking proactive steps to ask relevant Ministers questions outside Parliament and duly get their answers on the spot. That sounds great Mr President.But, considering that legislators serve the people, they will always find it suitable to raise questions in the August House fully knowing that their constituents are watching and listening. As a former MP yourself, Mr President, you know fully...

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