
Humiliated, battered and bruised in the 2019 elections, the once mighty opposition Botswana National Front (BNF) has started a revival campaign to restore party structures around the country ahead of the crucial elective congress in July. BNF will hosts a series of congresses for its auxiliary and regional bodies ahead of the party’s most crucial congress billed for July, where delegates will elect leadership for Central Committee positions, including that of Secretary General and President. Licking their wounds from a dismal performance at the October 2019 General Elections under the coalition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), the BNF leadership is running helter skelter to put their house in order. Although BNF spin doctors have tried to down play the existence of factions in the party, a glaring rift between those aligned to the party President Duma Boko and his deputy Reverend Dr Prince Dibeela has been playing out in public before, during and immediately after elections. The Fallout Prior to elections, some members of the BNF Central Committee who are sympathetic to Dibeela complained that Boko was side-lining them and running the party alone without any consultations. They complained that Boko even hijacked CC meetings, dictating what was to happen…