{"id":12127,"date":"2022-08-17T12:36:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress"},"modified":"2022-08-17T13:32:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T13:32:05","slug":"zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabweans, Public Servants picked out in F\/town West BDP Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>Three Zimbabweans nationals and two public servants angling to participate in the weekend congress of the Francistown West Branch Congress of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) were picked out before they could cast their votes.<\/b><\/p>\n

The congress was a crucial one where delegates to the national congress of the BDP, which is scheduled for Tsabong, were elected.<\/p>\n

Screening Process<\/b><\/p>\n

Sources say the imposters were picked out in the course of the elections and after they were mobilised by unidentified members of the BDP to bolster their numbers to become delegates. However, a screening process revealed them as well-known Zimbabwean residents of Francistown and public servants.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore they could be interrogated the Zimbabweans ran away while the public servants were chased away by the Chairman of the Francistown Region, Baemedi Medupi, who was presiding over the proceedings,\u201d said a source.<\/p>\n

Reached for comment, Medupi dithered in his response. \u201cI am not aware of foreigners and public servants trying to participate in our branch congress,\u201d he said. \u201cHowever, I cannot rule out the possibility of underhanded tactics, especially from people desperate for votes. These people have a tendency of doing anything in their power to win votes. But they have to understand that the party has a constitution that has to be followed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Short Notice<\/b><\/p>\n

Medupi said people who always devise plots to prevail usually fail to canvass for support in time and go on to accuse the party of injustices afterwards, including not being informed of events in time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is worth noting that in politics we cannot all get information about the new developments, especially these branch congresses because they can come at short notice,\u201d he noted. \u201cHowever, resorting to underhanded tactics does not guarantee winning.\u201d<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Botswana<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. Three Zimbabweans nationals and two public servants angling to participate in the weekend congress of the Francistown West Branch Congress of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) were picked out before they could cast their votes. The congress was a crucial one where delegates to the national congress of the BDP, which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,10,12,16],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-12127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"\nZimbabweans, Public Servants picked out in F\/town West BDP Congress - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Three Zimbabweans nationals and two public servants angling to participate in the weekend congress of the Francistown ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zimbabweans, Public Servants picked out in F\/town West BDP Congress\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Three Zimbabweans nationals and two public servants angling to participate in the weekend congress of the Francistown ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-17T12:36:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-17T13:32:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_19-62fcedb766f84.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1170\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Zimbabweans, Public Servants picked out in F\/town West BDP Congress\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-17T12:36:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-17T13:32:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress\"},\"wordCount\":309,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_19-62fcedb766f84.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"parties\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress\",\"name\":\"Zimbabweans, Public Servants picked out in F\/town West BDP Congress - Botswana\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_19-62fcedb766f84.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-17T12:36:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-17T13:32:05+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Three Zimbabweans nationals and two public servants angling to participate in the weekend congress of the Francistown ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_19-62fcedb766f84.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_19-62fcedb766f84.jpg\",\"width\":1170,\"height\":600,\"caption\":\"Zimbabweans, Public Servants picked out in F\/town West BDP Congress\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Zimbabweans, Public Servants picked out in F\/town West BDP Congress\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/\",\"name\":\"Botswana\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Zimbabweans, Public Servants picked out in F\/town West BDP Congress - Botswana","description":"Three Zimbabweans nationals and two public servants angling to participate in the weekend congress of the Francistown ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Zimbabweans, Public Servants picked out in F\/town West BDP Congress","og_description":"Three Zimbabweans nationals and two public servants angling to participate in the weekend congress of the Francistown ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress","og_site_name":"Botswana","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-08-17T12:36:04+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-08-17T13:32:05+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1170,"height":600,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_19-62fcedb766f84.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Zimbabweans, Public Servants picked out in F\/town West BDP Congress","datePublished":"2022-08-17T12:36:04+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-17T13:32:05+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress"},"wordCount":309,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_19-62fcedb766f84.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Botswana","Botswana"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","parties","policy","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress","name":"Zimbabweans, Public Servants picked out in F\/town West BDP Congress - Botswana","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_19-62fcedb766f84.jpg","datePublished":"2022-08-17T12:36:04+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-17T13:32:05+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Three Zimbabweans nationals and two public servants angling to participate in the weekend congress of the Francistown ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_19-62fcedb766f84.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_19-62fcedb766f84.jpg","width":1170,"height":600,"caption":"Zimbabweans, Public Servants picked out in F\/town West BDP Congress"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/zimbabweans-public-servants-picked-out-in-f-town-west-bdp-congress#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Zimbabweans, Public Servants picked out in F\/town West BDP Congress"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/","name":"Botswana","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}