Botswana’s breakaway political party turns one

12 Juin 2020

Gaborone, Botswana,  June 12 (Infosplusgabon) - Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF), a breakaway faction from the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), turns one year old on Friday.

“Our first anniversary as a party comes at times of the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are not able to all congregate and celebrate. We, therefore, urge all our members, sympathizers and fraternal friends in the opposition to wear BPF colours this Friday, 12 June, 2020, wherever they maybe,” said, Roseline Panzirah-Matshome, the BPF Secretary General.

BPF was formed last year ahead of the country’s general elections, with the former President Ian Khama being the patron, leaving a political movement formed by his father Seretse Khama, the country’s founding president.

Panzirah-Matshome has highlighted that the party was formed out of the desire for justice and fairness.

“A year ago and against painful odds we left to found a political party of our own, a party that would stand for fairness and social justice. One in which each and every one of us may become whatever it is they wish to become without the overbearing presence of any one man,” Panzirah-Matshome said.

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