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The power lies with Butale

Butale PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Butale PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Biggie Ganda Butale is a senior pastor at the End Time Ministries church in Gaborone and the president of the Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF), a political party that has lately been engrossed in bitter political feuding. Mmegi Staffer RYDER GABATHUSE speaks to Butale after court victories that settled leadership crisis in the party making the BPF president the newsmaker of the moment

For the man of God-cum politician-cum-lawyer, Butale says he has been juggling between his interests with ease without any of his interests suffering.

He is not even shy to explicate that it is his leadership prowess that will continue helping him stir the BPF ship to calm waters. He has hope that as a collective, the BPF leadership has the wherewithal to take their party to greater heights.

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