Khama’s shadow glooms the BPF

Tuesday, November 04, 2025 | 220 Views |

BPF congress in Palapye.PIC.KENNEDY RAMOKONE

SEROWE: Ironically, it was former president Ian Khama who opened the Serowe Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) congress, the man who midwifed the latter into existence.

Yet, as he turned his back and left the Serowe College of Education hall, chaos erupted. It was as if his physical departure mirrored his once-commanding influence over the movement he helped create.

With Khama now largely preoccupied with his royal duties in the Bangwato chieftaincy, the BPF finds itself orphaned, a political ship without its captain, a vessel drifting in the political wilderness, searching for direction amidst the tempests of factionalism. His absence has exposed the deep fractures long hidden beneath the party’s patriotic rhetoric.

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