Mabaila hearing this Friday

Mabaila PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES
Mabaila PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

The suspended Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) aspiring candidate for Mogoditshane constituency Tshepang Mabaila’s case has been re-scheduled for Friday this week at Tsholetsa House after it had been postponed to October 9 and 10, 2018.

BDP disciplinary hearing committee could not form a quorum.  Mabaila was slapped with two months suspension for different offences.

Despite time running out for Mabaila to start his campaign as a candidate or the party finding another candidate, members of the disciplinary committee failed to show up last Friday. The matter got worse after BDP National Disciplinary Committee (NDC) vice chairperson, Yame Kebabonye made the accused person and their witnesses wait for 40 minutes thinking that disciplinary committee members would show up. 

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