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The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) might be headed for trouble ahead of its annual delegates conference at Tutume McConnell Secondary School in Tutume village from Saturday July 15 to July 17.One of the weightiest items in the BCP conference agenda,...

The Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) has since its formation in 2019 been riddled with factions which have spent their time scheming against each other as well as expended resources on litigation.Obviously these worked against its founding objectives...

Botswana Peoples’ Party (BPP) is divided over whether it should simply hold a National Annual Delegates Conference or Elective Congress.Besides several reshuffles in the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) and Central Committee (CC)...

The president of Botswana Primary School Teachers Association (BOPRITA), Gagoitsiwe Malete has complained that some teachers are still forced to share houses - a state of affairs that compromises their security and health.Detailing the challenges...

The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) Women’s Wing will be touring the entire country and holding meetings and workshops at regional level to train women on how to campaign.The organ’s chairperson, Peggy Serame who is also Specially Elected Member...

Confusion reigns over how and where the decision for Alliance for Progressives (AP) to work with Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) was taken. While the leadership of AP insists the decision was by the party collective at their Conference held at...

The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) Leadership Forum in Palapye on Saturday attracted an array of political formations including Botswana Labour Party (BLP), Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin (MELS) as well as disgruntled members of the Alliance for...

Botswana Congress Party does not consider the loss of its Councillors who have defected to the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) as an existential threat, party Secretary General, Goretetse Kekgonegile has said.The Councillors’ defection follows...

Botswana is not developed because since its independence in 1966, it was led by politicians, the majority of whom did not possess the necessary academic qualifications. This is according to University of Botswana (UB) academic, Dr. Adam...

One of the three founder-members of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) in 2011 - Motlatsi Molapisi-led Botswana Peoples Party - is unhappy with the treatment they are getting in the coalition especially in terms of positions.The other founding...

Mistrust continues to define the relationship between the Ian Khama-led faction of the Botswana Patriotic Front and the Biggie Butale faction despite efforts by both men to find peace.Should the tensions and mistrust prevail, that would be a far-cry...

In what may turn out to be the biggest challenge in its 26-year-old history, the Botswana Congress Party (BCP), risks losing dozens of Councillors and Members of Parliament (MPs) to the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC).With the UDC leader, Duma...

The Umbrella for Democratic Change has won bragging rights following the weekend victory of the Mapoka-Nlapkhwane ward by-election at the expense of Botswana Congress Party and Botswana Democratic Party.Since the 2019 general election, the UDC has...

One of the characteristics of the president of both the Botswana National Front (BNF) and Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), Duma Boko, who chairs the executive and central committee meetings of both the BNF and UDC, is his penchant for coming...

The Botswana Congress Party always saves the ruling Botswana Democratic Party by leaving the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) coalition thereby strategically splitting votes when the opposition should vote as a collective to defeat the ruling...