Politicians eye votes, ignore waste management

Neither do the parties have policy documents spelling out how they would look after the physical environment should they be given the mandate to govern the country.

Despite the fact that the Francistown West constituency ­– where a bye-election is imminent – is perhaps the dirtiest part of the city, it appears the candidates Habaudi Hubona of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP), Botswana Peoples’ Party’s (BPP) Shathiso Tambula and independents Kago Phofuetsile and Joseph Mabutho are not offering any alternatives to the government’s waste management policy.