Youth didn't vote in Palapye

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PALAPYE: After successfully retaining the faction-riddled Palapye constituency, the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) will soon institute investigations into allegations of 'sabotage' by party faithful in the weekend by-election.

Amid pomp and celebrations after winning the weekend by-election with a comfortable margin of about 486 votes, BDP campaign manager, Lesego Raditanka, said issues that are likely to dominate the post mortem "include allegations that some of our people threatened to sabotage the BDP and vote for the opposition or simply stay away".

Bad blood manifested itself among the BDP supporters last Friday when some supporters turned up to the star rally wearing black dresses for 'funeral' of Goya rather than help the guest speaker, Vice President and BDP chairman, Ian Khama to liven up the rally.

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