BDP will win the elections with consummate ease and opposition will be left licking their wounds, remonstrating and regretting what might have been if they had gotten their act together. So well in advance we can predict the wailing and gnashing of teeth in opposition ranks. They deserve it. They only have themselves to blame, so no point feeling sorry for them. Not feeling sorry for them however should not distract us that the ruling party will have attained yet another overwhelming mandate to run the country for another five years.
If there is a segment of society that should get very worried about the very predictable results of the 2014 general elections, it is the labour movement in Botswana. Unions should be worried, very worried about a BDP victory.You see, after the BDP congress in Maun, there were muted reports that some members of the BDP inner-circle mumbled something about Unions being a little too full of themselves.The sentiments expressed that unions were getting a tad too big for their boots, that they were forgetting their place. In the words uttered, 'they were forgetting that they were not given the mandate to rule'.
