UDC peace deal: Real or cosmetic?

UDC leaders: Boko and Saleshando PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES
UDC leaders: Boko and Saleshando PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES

The UDC has become Batswana’s only hope to give the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) a serious challenge and even possibly wrestle over state power. However, just a month ago, the coalition appeared to be on the verge of collapse as its dirty linen was exposed in the public.

For the first time, its leaders, president Duma Boko and his vice Dumelang Saleshando showed that they were not in good terms as they engaged in a blame game in the midst of incessant exchanges of words among members of the affiliates, Botswana National Front (BNF) and Botswana Congress Party (BCP). The coalition partners include the Botswana Peoples Party (BPP).

For a long time post the 2019 general election, the two parties’ members, unlike their leaders, have not hidden the fact that there is no peace in the UDC.

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