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Paradox of two presidents

Tuesday, November 04, 2025 | 390 Views |

SEROWE: Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) stands at a perilous crossroads, its survival teetering on the edge after a stormy and chaotic elective congress here over the weekend. What was meant to be a triumphant democratic exercise to usher in new leadership descended instead into political theatre, a fierce duel for legitimacy, power, and survival.

The once-promising party, birthed in the political fires of 2019 and nurtured under the shadow of its former patron, Ian Khama, now finds itself fractured down the middle. Two rival camps, led by Mephato Reatile and Lawrence Ookeditse, each claim the right to steer the party’s battered ship. But as things stand, the BPF appears to be spiralling midair, wings torn by internal strife.

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