What can BDP do to Barata-Phathi?

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Members of the Barata-Phathi faction have dismissed an ultimatum to hand over their Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) membership cards.

The deadline issued on Monday by the BDP central committee for handing in the cards expired yesterday with the faction members remaining defiant after announcing they are forming a new party.

"What is the point? I burnt mine the day I decided I was not a BDP member. And I am not their member. I don't know what action they say they will be taking, but we will wait to see," a member of the faction said.

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