20 May 2019

Alliance for Progressives (AP) leader, Mr Ndaba Gaolathe says his party offers hope and desires to restore Batswana’s lost dignity.

Mr Ndaba was speaking at the launch of Serowe West constituency prospective parliamentary candidate, Mr Leremela Bogosing and council candidates in Serowe on May 18.

He said the AP offered best prospects of the new Botswana, and thus urged those in political formations that suffocated them to join AP.

“I call all those that are unsociable from the political discourse for many reasons to come and feel comfortable at the AP,” he said.

The AP leader also urged party members to teach all those that did not participate in the political process that politics was a responsibility and not a career.

He said it was the AP’s responsibility to show Batswana that politics was not a game but a moral responsibility that could shape the country and determine the future.

Furthermore, Mr Gaolathe said their part was ready to work with all nations, various political parties, regional and international organisations, labour movements and civil society.

Among the values which Mr Gaolathe said formed the core of their foundation was commitment to justice, truth, honesty, the sanctity of human life, freedom, the pursuit of happiness and the idea that all human beings were born equal.

“True unity is not forced or imposed, it is inspired by an attraction to a vision and a value system that promises to build a great new Botswana,” he explained.

Regarding job creation, Mr Gaolathe, who is also MP for Gaborone Bonnington South, said the AP would create permanent jobs commensurate with years of schooling.

He promised a new Botswana with a knowledge-based economy and the use of technology in agriculture and the agro-processing sector.

“We imagine a nation that is not only able to feed itself, but also opens avenues for employment through the agricultural sector as another means of igniting an inclusive economy with opportunities for all our citizens,’’ he said.

Mr Gaolathe said corruption in government had resulted in high unemployment rates, crowded and dilapidated schools and poor services at hospitals.

He decried corruption, appealing to Batswana to change the ruling government and to vote for AP and a new Botswana.

Another speaker at the launch, Mr Gape Motswaledi, who is a prospective parliamentary candidate for Palapye, said there was poor education and unemployment which oppressed Batswana who keep on voting BDP.

Mr Motswaledi said the country had lost a lot money through corruption whilst most Batswana remained poor and health facilities running short of medicines. ENDS