Raditlhokwa unveils BCPYL elections team
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Raditlhokwa
The BCPYL is expected to hold an elective congress on April 25, 2015 in Francistown.
Raditlhokwa said her decision was borne out of her beliefs as espoused in the BCP founding document, Democratic and Development Programme (DDP), the constitution and ‘my sheer passion for the party of choice’. “The BCP project no doubt has sufficient goodwill, capital especially human and the requisite resilience to weather the current ‘storm’. I have therefore chosen to step up to be counted at a time when BCP requires more than ever before, resolute members ingratiated with its core values and beliefs. I humbly offer myself to serve my party of choice and through it, the nation diligently,” she said.
Instead, it risks becoming an exercise in empty symbolism, undermined by the government’s baffling refusal to properly consult the very people essential for its success: teachers and their unions. President Duma Boko’s initiative is welcome. The suspension of these vital programmes in 2019, initially blamed on budget woes but rooted in a standoff over fair allowances for teacher-coaches, has done untold damage.Restoring them is the right...