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In Botswana, the opposition has been failing to carry the hopes of the people by unseating the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from the seat of power since 57 years ago. Botswana’s opposition parties have been largely struggling to put...

The flowering of the trees that surely attract butterflies and insects generally announces the open season for the boys’ native games, which depend on the availability of certain select species of trees.A hawk-eyed rural boy would be able to...

For many years, the opposition was popular in Gaborone and surrounding urban places and major villages with the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) playing second fiddle including in other urban centres.The Botswana National Front (BNF), the main...

Sometimes mokwakwa provided entertainment to the villagers although it often rubbed some the wrong way, especially those chased out of the territory. It was through this somewhat outlandish game that boys were able to defend their territory by...

Butale took the helm of the BPF in 2019, steering the then new kid on the political bloc. The attorney-cum-pastor-cum-politician’s initial stability crumbled when he fell out with the party patron and benefactor Khama. Shaken, Butale would never...

Hopping between the spaces where I was raised at Boikago ward in Palapye and the kotoisi just a stone’s throw away from Lotsane River was an exciting experience that had already made the Palapye railway station my second home.The railway compound,...

During our days as boys and girls, there were only two important places to visit on independence day: The village kgotla and your primary school. It was literally difficult to sleep on the eve of the Independence Day, thinking about the day’s...

Just for the background, outside the umbrella arrangement, one of the political parties touted to be focused, stable and very strong as a single entity, the Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) has also witnessed bitter factionalism tearing it asunder.The...

The President Masisi-led government has seemingly been worried about the performance of certain departments and ministries to the extent that in the past there was a strong feeling that the public service was awash with some individuals hell-bent on...

Political bigwigs have started pulling the strings from behind the scenes selling their political ideologies ahead of an event that promises a lot of action as a clash of the titans.The political parties’ move is heightened by the reality that the...

Having been part of the team that joined the leadership of the federation post the 2011 public sector trade unions dubbed the mother of all strikes, Rari, a teacher by training, feels he has played his part in establishing a federation of...

MmegiOnline has seen some of the lists which seemingly favour the National Amalgamated, Central, Local and Parastatal Manual Workers Union (NACLPMWU) commonly known as Manual Workers Union.The list of interested office bearers is expected to swell as...

When President Mokgweetsi Masisi used powers vested in him to choose Tsogwane as his VP in 2018 after taking over the reins of power from his predecessor, Ian Khama, Tsogwane was like a man thrown at the bitter end. He had started on the wrong...

The BPF has not known peace for the longest time now and its two centres of power now threaten to tear the party asunder if not well managed in their attempts to cement the control of the party.Lately, the BPF has been managed from the courtrooms and...

The party’s incessant in-and-out of court escapades speak to an organisation that cannot manage its challenges in-house and at worst, prefers to wash its dirty linen in public.Even if former president Biggie Butale was an unwanted man in the party,...