Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)
4 November 2009
Botswana Democratic Party Central Committee could be plunged into another crisis with at least four members of the central committee said to be seriously contemplating to resign in protest.
The latest political fissure follows the controversial election of the new Secretary General at the party central committee meeting on Monday.
Thato Kwerepe, who has all along been an additional member of the committee that was elected at the Kanye congress in July, was on Monday elevated to be the party top scribe following the five-year suspension of Gomolemo Motswaledi. Kwerepe has all along been a member of the Barata-Phathi faction but was on Monday pitted against Wynter Mmolotsi, a fellow Barata Phathi member for the vacant post of Secretary General. With the support of A-team central committee members and possibly two members of Barata-Phathi the meeting voted Kwerepe over Mmolotsi who was the faction's anointed choice. Members of Barata Phathi have been left wondering whether the top leadership of the party has now infiltrated the solid team that swept to victory in Kanye.
This has apparently left a bitter taste in the mouths of the dissatisfied members of Barata Phathi who feel the party leadership is unnecessarily interfering and are bent on marginalising them.
The dissatisfied central committee members are said to be contemplating resigning from the central committee in protest.
By late yesterday the BDP Executive Secretary, Comma Serema, said he had not received any resignation letter from anyone although he had heard a rumour to the effect that mass resignation could be imminent.
"Until I receive resignation letters this will just be nothing but a rumour," Serema said.
When asked to comment one of the Central Committee members who are rumoured to be contemplating resignation, Kabo Morwaeng, shrugged off the rumour as speculation.
"If I resign I will have to write a letter and I have not done that," said Morwaeng.
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