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In their 2019 General Election Manifestos, political parties had a consensus that the time has come for the Botswana constitution to be subjected to a comprehensive but not a piece-meal review. We have also noted that at last the BDP government will implement the long overdue constitutional review as indicated in the 2021/2022 Budget Speech. This decision to review the constitution was arrived at independently by individual political parties and therefore the views on what aspects of the constitution are to be reviewed differ from one political party to another. We at UDC were and remain conv...

22nd December 2020 It looks like the Botswana Patriotic Front will, at least for the foreseeable future continue to slowly chip at the membership of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party. There are undercurrents pointing to the fact that Lawrence Ookeditse who has been a staunch activist of the BDP is set to leave that party and reunite with former president Ian Khama at the Botswana Patriotic Front. Khama is the patron of the BPF. For some time now signs of a pattern have been emerging pointing at the fact that Ookeditse was unhappy with some key events in his party. Contacted by Sunday stan...