Kwelagobe no-quit move raises eyebrows

Kwelagobe is the only influential Barata-Phathi member remaining in the central committee.

This follows the resignation of Kabo Morwaeng, Wynter Mmolotsi and Samson Guma-Moyo,  who were all associated with the Barata-Phathi faction.  The three resigned in protest following the election of Thato Kwerepe in place of suspended BDP secretary general, Gomolemo Motswaledi.  Kwerepe was initially a Barata-Phathi member but has since turned his back on the faction.  But it was through  Barata- Phathi that the novice politician was elected to the central committee during the July 2009 BDP congress in Kanye.