Botswana: Bnf Congress Buries Party Faction

The outcome of the weekend's Botswana National Front (BNF) elections appears to have driven the final nails into the political coffins of the party's former vice president Kopano Lekoma and his associates.

In the run-up to the congress, Lekoma and his allies had acrimoniously complained of the devious strategies to "shut out some targeted individuals from the central committee". They called for the use of the "lobby list" as opposed to "nomination list" and rejected the constitutional amendments aimed at downsizing the central committee from 29 to 18 portfolios.

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