No Celebrations As BDP Retains Tshimoyapula

The BDP candidate won with 469 votes ahead of Umbrella for Democratic Change’s (UDC) Modala Modala with 318 and the independent candidate, Chibuya Dabutha gaining only 63.

The ruling party had decided on the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ model to identify the candidate, but this did not go down well with many of its electorates because the winner was not their preferred candidate. The win came as a relief as it was evidently unclear whether BDP would easily walk away with this one.The opposition on the other hand capitalised on this to attract electorate into its folds. Hope was that, as it once happened with Malatswai and Khwee, Tshimoyapula would prove again that Bangwato territory can easily be penetrated by the opposition. However this was not to be.