Joubert runs back to BDP

Barely a month after bolting from the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) stables for the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD), Anne Joubert - the South East District Council chairperson - has made a volte-face.

The Lobatse Farms councillor has retraced her footsteps to BDP saying that opposition politics is a waste of time.
 "I simply realised that the people were wasting my time. You see up there, the leaders of the opposition umbrella are united. That is not the case with the lower structures such as council. And I returned to the BDP rather than waste my time with people who can't agree on a simple way forward," she said.  The 'way forward' she is referring to, involves a plan by the combined opposition to declare a motion of no confidence in the deputy council chair and BDP specially nominated councillor Berrence Seitshiro.

"I had misgivings about that. I felt that a motion of no confidence in my deputy would be an indictment, so I made my feelings known.  Some of the opposition members agreed to postpone the whole thing to September, but others refused. I could not stand the arguments. I would have gone along with whatever consensus they came up with, but they were not agreeing. So I would not waste my time," she said. She maintains she would go back to the opposition if there is cohesion.

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