The BDP impasse
Thursday, July 23, 2015

The victorious Molale celebrating his win after the announcement of the results. PIC: KABO MPAETONA
The BDP held Bulela Ditswe last Saturday but one of the contestants has filed a complaint challenging the outcome of the primary elections.
Five people had contested the primaries for the parliamentary position, which was won by the minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration, Eric Molale. Other contestants were Tonny Mogatle, Kopo Mononi, Philip Sebakile and Fankie Motsaathebe.
Here in Botswana, we have many single-parent households, mostly female-led, so what does that suggest? That some fathers choose to ditch the responsibility of caring for their children and leave them to the ones who carry them during pregnancy to do the heavy lifting.Of course, in other dynamics, there are instances where the father wants to keep the baby and the would-be mother does not want to, hence the saying ‘whose body is it anyway’.In...