
Second born due in few weeks; as some pray for a still-born Deep inside the leadership of Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) knows that things are pretty ugly and could go terribly wrong in three weeks’ time when they meet in Kang. The polarisation in the party is so much that some have begun packing their luggage to assume a new political life under a new banner – such is the intensity of mistrust that border on tribal lines and have only been worsened by a threat that 29 of those seen to be delinquents for belonging to a different camp shall be facing disciplinary procedures after the party special congress. This therefore means that on the sunset of her fertility at 57 years, the BDP is on the verge of delivering a new offspring. This will be the party’s second born after the split that saw the birth of Botswana Movement for Democracy (BMD) in 2010. Similarly – just as with the BMD – the new offspring would have at its centre an issue to do with former President Ian Khama. BMD founders loathed Khama, hating in particular the way he had treated then party secretary general Gomolemo Motswaledi whom…