No reconciliation in sight for BPF
Friday, June 30, 2023 | 450 Views |

Butale PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
The court action came after some members of the NEC held a meeting, without Butale’s consent contrary to the High Court judgment which had stated that NEC meetings should be called by Butale.
“We have not held any meeting or reached out to the party president since the court case, which continues today (Friday). I don’t think there would be any meeting before the court case,” the BPF vice president Mephato Reatile said in an interview on Wednesday. At the said meeting, the NEC suspended Butale for 90 days, which was then reversed by the Lobatse High Court.
For a fact, in a democratic society such as Botswana, the media plays a crucial role of being watchdog, holding the powerful to account and exposing all possible wrongdoing for the benefit of the public.There has been a nagging question about who watches the watchdog after all? Perhaps, the investigations into alleged wrongful acts implicating those supposed to be playing the watchdog role will shed more light into what has happened such that the...