Operation Gcwihaba, the unsanctioned BNF/BCP Plan B :: Mmegi Online

There is a protracted battle that is raging within the opposition coalition Umbrella Democratic Change (UDC). The battlefield has shifted from the National Executive Committee (NEC) to constitutional conference, and back to NEC.

It has now escalated to the office of the Registrar of Societies (RoS). It is a war between the bus driver (Duma Boko), and the bus conductor (Sidney Pilane) as they fight for keys to get the UDC bus moving.

Boko is the president of UDC while Pilane is the leader of the Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD), one of the contracting parties. Pilane is also the co-vice president of the UDC by default. It was a position previously held by Ndaba Gaolathe who formed a BMD splinter party called Alliance for Progressives (AP) following a bloody confrontation at Matshekge Senior Secondary School in Bobonong in 2017.

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