The BCP’s final lap
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Parting ways: Boko and Saleshando shaking hands during happier times PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
For a long time, the body languages communicated by Boko and his (now suspended) deputy Dumelang Saleshando was of two men in deep crisis at the helm of a party challenging to oust the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from nearly 60 years in power.
The BDP has been ruling the country since the colonial era in 1966 and its challengers have been failing to mount a rock-solid contest 57 years later.
It is also hurting that whilst we all know that the Botswana Police Service (BPS) is charged functionally with the duties to investigate all forms of crime, some locals have resorted to taking the law into their own hands. It is very wrong to do that. There is also a possibility that one may wrongfully take the life of a person in the process, unless it is a justifiable case of self-defence. Recently, in the city of Francistown, some locals found...