Lentswe La Batswapong Responds To Maele

Maele
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Lentswe la Batswapong Association (LLB), a non-governmental and apolitical organisation has been inundated with complaints from most Batswapong who disagree with what Prince Maele of Lerala-Maunatlala Constituency uttered at a kgotla meeting in Goo-Moremi on November, 16 2018.

Under normal circumstances we would not respond to such utterances but after considering that the remarks were made at a public sacred place –kgotla, we feel obliged to respond lest the MP’s utterances are misconstrued to be indicative of the views of Batswapong in general.

While we recognise that under a democracy such as ours, the MP is entitled to his opinion, we however find the utterances reprehensible. After collating opinions of Batswapong and seeking wisdom from many quarters we therefore conclude that:

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