Women politicians powerless

While leading opposition parties, the Botswana National Front (BNF) and the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) have gender policies and quotas advocating for women to assume positions of power internally and at national level, the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has no such.

On the contrary, President Mokgweetsi Masisi is hailed as a progressive leader in gender equality but his party has no legal instruments to advance women into positions of authority.