Molapise’s competing interests

Molapise
Molapise

At the age of 77, Mmadinare-born Motlatsi Molapise is now ready to hand over the Botswana Peoples Party (BPP) baton to whoever the party will vote as leader at its next elective conference.

If it was not for the debilitating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that has left the country grappling with a third wave in which the Delta variant is killing people, Molapise would have long called an elective conference for the party to choose a new leadership.

He is not in a hurry though, but he strongly feels he has run his race as both the BPP president and the chairperson of the opposition tri-party coalition, the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC).

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