{"id":82355,"date":"2026-03-20T10:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/saleshando-urges-support-for-emaswati-democracy"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:01:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:01:01","slug":"saleshando-urges-support-for-emaswati-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/saleshando-urges-support-for-emaswati-democracy","title":{"rendered":"Saleshando Urges Support for Emaswati Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong> <\/span><b>Dumelang Saleshando, the Botswana Member of Parliament (MP) and leader of the opposition &#8211; the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) has called for consistency in supporting emaSwati attain democracy.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The BCP and other political parties in Botswana have a solidarity relationship with Eswatini main liberation movement, the People\u2019s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO), the leader of the opposition said before being voted to power, they have been calling for democracy in Eswatini.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that within your coalition, before the UDC assumed power, the BNF was very strong about the situation in Eswatini. What is the position of Government now, are we content that Eswatini deserves a repressive Monarchy?,\u201d said the Botswana MP.<\/p>\n<p>On another note, the MP accused the Monarchy of not only killing emaSwati inside Eswatini but, hunting even those hiding in other countries merely for calling for democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are we unable to remain consistent to the values we said, we stand for?\u201d, said the MP when speaking in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Botswana<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. Dumelang Saleshando, the Botswana Member of Parliament (MP) and leader of the opposition &#8211; the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) has called for consistency in supporting emaSwati attain democracy. The BCP and other political parties in Botswana have a solidarity relationship with Eswatini main liberation movement, the People\u2019s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO), the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":82354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,10,244],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-82355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-parties","category-to-homepage","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>Saleshando Urges Support for Emaswati Democracy - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-article-header-tag&quot;&gt; Africa-Press - Botswana. 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