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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 JohnISNI
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]
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