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Title: | 'So Far So Good'? An Appraisal of Dr. Ng'ombe's 1998 Prophecy on the Fate of the BNF |
Author: | Makgala, Christian John |
Year: | 2003 |
Periodical: | Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies (ISSN 0256-2316) |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 51-66 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Botswana Southern Africa |
Subjects: | Botswana National Front Politics and Government History and Exploration politics elections political science |
Abbreviation: | BNF=Botswana National Front |
External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/pula/372/OBJ/download |
Abstract: | The socialist Botswana National Front (BNF) was formed in 1965. This was shortly after the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), formed in 1962, had won the country's first democratic elections. Since the late 1970s, the BNF registered gradual growth as a leading opposition party in the country and by the mid-1990s it was even seen as strong enough to replace the ruling BDP. However, charged with 'opportunism' from 1969 onward, the BNF has been plagued by factional fighting and splits since 1998. In that year a Zambian prophet, Doctor Francis Ng'ombe, predicted that no opposition party would attain power for the next 15 years. In the 1999 general elections the BNF won only six parliamentary seats, compared to the BDP's 34. Bibliogr., ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |