There should be 'one president'- Masimolole

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If the MP for Mogoditshane, Patrick Masimolole could have things his way there would only one 'president' in Botswana.

He feels that currently just about everybody is called president and this is confusing. He has proposed that officials who lead societies should not be called president but chairpersons like it was done in Malawi during the late Dr Hastings Banda's era. Banda had banned the use of the word president for organisations because there was only one president in the country.

Masimolole said when the officials are referred to as presidents, they think they are too powerful and become big headed, citing the example of the Botswana Football Association (BFA).

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