Mangole invites �expelled� members to appeal
Friday, July 07, 2017
This was after the party wrote letters to the expelled members to appear before the committee. The expelled members include party president Ndaba Gaolathe, vice president Wynter Mmolotsi, BMD women league president Joyce Mothudi, Pako Keokilwe, Harriet Rampa and former BMD youth league president Phenyo Segokgo.
“The national disciplinary hearing committee of appeal of Botswana Movement for Democracy will sit at 10 in the morning Saturday 8th July 2017 at the office of the movement to commence an automatic appeal arising from your recent conviction and sentence of expulsion imposed upon you by the national disciplinary committee of the movement arising from disciplinary charges that had been brought and prosecuted against you,” BMD secretary general Gilbert Mangole wrote on July 4.
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