Botswana: Vote Splitting in Opposition Will Hand BDP Victory

My attention was attracted to an opinion piece authored by my sister Ms Tumy Modise in her capacity as the BDP Secretary of International Relations and Publicity Subcommittee.

Let me start by concurring with her that the BDP will benefit from vote splitting in the general election. There is, to borrow from her article, empirical evidence that the BDP has benefitted from the said vote splitting in past elections. What me and her should agree on, is to what extent vote splitting will help the BDP to…