BNF to expel members?
source: Mmegi
OARABILE MOSIKARE
Correspondent
FRANCISTOWN: Botswana National Front (BNF) is reportedly planning to suspend and expel more than 50 members for supporting an independent candidate during Thamaga West ward by-election. The members are waiting to know their fate following a disciplinary hearing at the weekend.
BNF sources have revealed that a number of activists from Gaborone, Molepolole, Kanye, Lobatse and Thamaga have received letters from the party leadership asking them to show cause why they should not be suspended or expelled from the party.
The BNF members landed in trouble after allegedly backing independent candidate Tona Selala during Thamaga West council by-election in January. Selala was suspended from the BNF after winning the party primaries for the by-election. He stood as an independent and lost to Botswana Democratic Party’s Goitseone Janie by 358 votes to 283.
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