When the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) approached the National Broadcasting Board (NBB) to complain about the reading of President Ian Khama's speech addressing ruling party feuds on the state-owned Btv and Radio Botswana, there were no indications that the move will start new hostilities in very unlikely quarters. The original war has always been there. The opposition has always had a bone to chew with the way the state media was being used by the BDP. The BCP approached the Ombudsman, who asked for evidence. That would have required a complete academic study involving people with pens and papers and possibly stopwatches, starring at a TV screen all-day and all-night waiting for some political broadcast. Impossible on many levels. The Botswana National Front (BNF) had threatened to lodge their complaints with the Southern African Development Community.
As evidence of their frustrations, BCP youth stand accused of mounting an illegal demonstration after they went to Btv studios to express their displeasure at what they saw as a lack of equitable political coverage. This war was not getting anywhere really and the opposition seemed 'stuck in a rut' as the Australians would call it until Khama came to assist. During the height of the Motswaledi fiasco Khama summoned Mogomotsi Kaboeamodimo to read his speech on the internal business of the party. The president offered the opposition a golden bullet, if only the opposition was smart enough to discover and use it.
