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Sebetela's appointment: A political master stroke

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President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s appointment of former Cabinet minister and one of the Botswana Democratic Party’s (BDP) seasoned political animals, Lephimotswe Boyce Sebetela to the newly created position of Chief of Staff at government enclave has all the hallmarks of a political master stroke.

This is purely a undisguised political decision intended to serve a political cause. If achieving political ends is everything to the President, then he is worthy of full credit for his accurate reading of the current political tempo. The party is under siege.

Clearly, it requires no rocket science for anyone to realise that the mighty titanic is on the brink of sinking and it is well in order for the President to respond in the manner he did to rescue the situation.

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