This is a chapter that within all the chapters of a debate that we have, we conveniently opted to skip on numerous occasions. We have been jumping over rather to easier chapters like a student in an examination room attempting first questions that he is familiar with their content. We are back to the door of our future as embedded in our need to debate. Not only did Dr Nasha join the UDC, she specifically joined the BMD, which is a splinter party of the ruling BDP. The BMD was founded and is led by former senior figures of the ruling party and these are echoes of truth that should not be shunned when debating our intention of to be or not to be with the UDC. We have raised these questions in the corridors and in our little dark corners. An opportunity such as this that has availed itself must be utilised by we the members of the BCP without reservations and without any shyness or fear. The question as to why Dr Nasha did not join the BNF or the BPP must be of significance in our quest to entangle the question of whether to join or not to join the UDC. We must pose serious questions that will help us realise if we are or we are not by joining the UDC simply joining the BDP that we so much detest.
We have a choice to join the UDC because it is seemingly fashionable to do and we also have a choice to join the UDC because it is the politically reasonable thing to do. But how we exercise such a choice or choices should be determined by arising opportunity such as this. We must also not shy away from judging characters of those defecting from the ruling BDP to join the opposition and in doing that, we must be consciously guided by the words of Chairman Mao Tse-tung when he said that “We must know how to judge cadres. We must not confine our judgement to a short period or a single incident in a cadre’s life, but should consider his life and work as a whole. This is the principal method of judging cadres.” This is very significant as it raises the question of the character of people we want to get involved with in our quest from freeing Batswana from BDP.
