Thousands expected at BPF manifesto launch

BPF is scheduled to launch its manifesto on Saturday. PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG
BPF is scheduled to launch its manifesto on Saturday. PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG

FRANCISTOWN: Thousands of Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) activists and supporters are expected to converge in Francistown on Saturday to attend the party's inaugural manifesto launch and star rally.

Since its formation, the BPF has been pummelled with brickbats from many fronts, especially from its main adversary, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP).

The BDP has been accusing its splinter party of not having policies and aims that can develop the country and being only hell-bent on helping other opposition parties remove the ruling party from power since the unprecedented fallout of ex-president Ian Khama and his successor Mokgweetsi Masisi.

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