BDP cloak and dagger intrigues

The festering relations between the Gaborone region and the BDP youth leadership has troubled Khama. To people in the know, the warring parties are poles apart. At best, the Mosu youth council has exposed the weaknesses within the Khama-led BDP administration and his dying impact as a leader. The youth defiance also seems to suggest that Khama is reaching his lame duck years.

His stature and the so-called Khama magic are waning because, two days after his strong-worded address, the defiant Gaborone region youth repudiated his word. They slapped the BDP National Youth Executive Committee (NYEC) with a petition that opened a can of worms.