Out of about nine who contested parliamentary seats, only two won - Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi in Serowe South and Botlogile Tshireletso in Mahalpye East. Speaking at a press conference in Gaborone, Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (BOCONGO) executive secretary, Reverend Mosweu Simane, who was part of the SADC NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations) observer mission in the elections said that the SADC Gender Protocol is a holistic approach to issues of women representation. He said Botswana should do more to ensure that women are empowered in politics. He asserted that appointing women to Parliament through special nominations will not help in empowering them "because the protocol says by 2015, countries should have 50 percent women representation in positions of power".
He said that though they came to observe elections very late, two days before polling, they interacted with stakeholders and interviewed them to share perspectives on what has been happening. "We hope our observation during the elections will reflect what transpired," he stated. He acknowledged that the process of elections observing starts at the pre-elections stage and ends at the post elections stage.
