Johannesburg – Botswana, an African success story of economic growth and political stability, is reeling from the latest political developments which have seen former president Ian Khama resign from the ruling Botswana Democratic Party .
Khama’s dramatic resignation over the weekend was the result of deepening differences with the current administration under President Mokgweetsi Masisi, according to media reports. The two men have fallen out over a number of issues including a reversal by Masisi of some of Khama’s policies including alcohol taxes and the lifting of the controversial ban on elephant hunting.
An article in Botswana’s Sunday Standard, without a byline, said Khama was more Western than African and that despite the battle for executive power between Khama and Masisi being cast in tribal terms the former was merely using tribal identity in a similar fashion to the former British colonialists.
A new name for the factional battles within Botswana's ruling party? Stop sanitizing the rot and infighting in Masisi's party. BDP is at war with itself, stop clutching at straws. We need regime change, after BDP's 53 years of misrule and corruption, that's all.
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