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No end in sight for BPF/Butale legal strife

Butale FILE PIC
Butale FILE PIC

FRANCISTOWN: For suspended Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) president, Biggie Butale, late former president of South Africa’s book, “Long Walk to Freedom” somehow describes his predicament.

The BPF suspended Butale late last year following allegations that he had sexually violated a female student party activist amongst others. But Butale denies the allegations.

He says that the allegations are politically motivated by some very powerful people within the BPF who want to replace him as president of Botswana’s last born in politics.

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