Pule: Facing your nemesis on on the other side of the aisle :: Mmegi Online

During the 12th Parliament, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) ruled the country, and it wasn’t until the party lost the 2024 General Election that Kgatleng East legislator Mabuse Pule and his peers realised that being on the other side of the aisle is not easy. Writes Mmegi Staffer RYDER GABATHUSE

“Can you imagine facing the same people who were against your party and government and now in power?” maverick politician Pule, who leads the minority party (BDP) with a deriding moniker of ‘Fours’ in Parliament, describes the atmosphere that prevails in the National Assembly.

Pule, however, consoles himself that, in the same 12th Parliament, the current Environment and Tourism Minister Wynter Mmolotsi was a lone wolf within his primary party, the Alliance for Progressives (AP), in a Parliament dominated by the BDP.

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