New BDP no work experience :: Mmegi Online

With at least nine ministers at the exit door, and three of them already paying regular visits to the pension fund, the Botswana Democratic Party can no longer boast about their experience in governance, Mmegi Staffer BAME PIET argues that there is an alternative.

Former Vice President Lieutenant General Mompati Merafhe, used to warn that “go busa ga se diketo’ every time he held the floor in the National Assembly to dismiss the remarks raised by opposition members. The Opposition backbench attracted the General’s wrath especially when they dismissed the former President Festus Mogae’s State of the Nation Address or the late minister of Finance and Development Planning Baledzi Gaolathe’s budget speech. Those years, around 2006 and 2008, Merafhe was Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Leader of the House.

Then, the current Vice President Dr Ponatshego Kedikilwe was resting somewhere in the back bench, and wrath then continued to the latter years when Khama ascended to the presidency making Merafhe his Vice President. At this time and in the twilight of his career, Merafhe never used to hide his feelings about opposition MPs telling them of their ‘childish’ behaviour, and ‘naivety’. He would tell them that they had no experience whatsoever in governance.

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