{"id":14867,"date":"2022-10-12T20:47:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/court-rejects-butales-self-reinstatement-as-bpf-president"},"modified":"2022-10-12T22:09:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:09:41","slug":"court-rejects-butales-self-reinstatement-as-bpf-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/court-rejects-butales-self-reinstatement-as-bpf-president","title":{"rendered":"Court rejects Butale\u2019s self-Reinstatement as BPF president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Lobatse High Court has rejected the self-reinstatement of Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) member, Biggie Butale, who recently reinstalled himself in the position of president of the party.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ruling in an application brought to court by acting president of the BPF, Caroline Lesang, Justice Matlhogonolo Phuthego said Butale remains barred from discharging duties as BPF president because he failed to appeal the decision of the party\u2019s Disciplinary Committee to pardon him as just an ordinary member.<\/p>\n<p><b>Consonance<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In demanding to be fully reinstated, Butale had argued that he had not been furnished with any charge sheet or given a disciplinary hearing by the party since his suspension over a year ago after allegations of sexual offences involving a student arose against him.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court ruling is in consonance with Lesang\u2019s wishes for Butale to be barred from reinstating himself as president of the BPF and discharging duties in that regard after Butale demanded unconditional reinstatement and proceeded to reinstate himself as BPF president when his demand was not met.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to rejecting Butale\u2019s reinstatement president, Justice Phuthego also nullified all decisions taken at Butale\u2019s National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The decisions included postponement of the party\u2019s congress that is scheduled for the end of this month, as well as suspension of presidential hopeful Samson Moyo Guma, party spokesperson Lawrence Ookeditse, national organising secretary Ford Moiteela and other members of the party\u2019s NEC.<\/p>\n<p><b>Anarchy<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It is not known what Butale\u2019s loss in court means to the BPF where he enjoyed the support of the party\u2019s MPs, councillors and influential patron Ian Khama.<\/p>\n<p>The party has been in a state of anarchy and indications are that this will continue for the foreseeable future because the other faction remains resolute and is not likely to yield any ground.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. The Lobatse High Court has rejected the self-reinstatement of Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) member, Biggie Butale, who recently reinstalled himself in the position of president of the party. Ruling in an application brought to court by acting president of the BPF, Caroline Lesang, Justice Matlhogonolo Phuthego said Butale remains barred from discharging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":14866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,10],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-14867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court rejects Butale\u2019s self-Reinstatement as BPF president - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Lobatse High Court has rejected the self-reinstatement of Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) member, Biggie Butale, w ...\" \/>\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\/court-rejects-butales-self-reinstatement-as-bpf-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Court rejects Butale\u2019s self-Reinstatement as BPF president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Lobatse High Court has rejected the self-reinstatement of Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) member, Biggie Butale, w ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/court-rejects-butales-self-reinstatement-as-bpf-president\" \/>\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=\"2022-10-12T20:47:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-12T22:09:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_52.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\/court-rejects-butales-self-reinstatement-as-bpf-president#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/court-rejects-butales-self-reinstatement-as-bpf-president\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Court rejects Butale\u2019s self-Reinstatement as BPF president\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-12T20:47:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-12T22:09:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/court-rejects-butales-self-reinstatement-as-bpf-president\"},\"wordCount\":325,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/court-rejects-butales-self-reinstatement-as-bpf-president#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_52.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/court-rejects-butales-self-reinstatement-as-bpf-president#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/court-rejects-butales-self-reinstatement-as-bpf-president\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/court-rejects-butales-self-reinstatement-as-bpf-president\",\"name\":\"Court rejects Butale\u2019s self-Reinstatement as BPF president - 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