Nonconformist Dow in the race for Mochudi West

She shocked many when she announced that she was going to contest for parliamentary office under the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) ticket a couple of years ago.  Though she was not always politically active, Dow says that she was a BDP member all along and first joined the party in the early 1990s.

“This is the first time that I am contested for an elective office,” she says. She won the Mochudi West BDP parliamentary primary elections in 2013.  She is now faced with the daunting task of wrestling the constituency from Gilbert Mangole of the Botswana Movement of Democracy (BMD).