Gaborone – Botswana’s reputation as a symbol of stability in a volatile continent will be put under the test on Wednesday as the Southern African country holds what looks likely to be a disputed general election.
The polls, which also deals the biggest challenge to the ruling Botswana Democratic Party stranglehold on power since independence from Britain in 1966, is a culmination of infighting within the ruling party, strained relations between the current president and his successor as well tensions with the main opposition coalition Umbrella for Democratic Change .
Incumbent, Mokgweetsi Masisi, has been involved in a very public spat with his predecessor, Seretse Khama Ian Khama, with the fractured relations leading to the latter quitting the party jointly formed by his father and founding president, Seretse Khama.
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