Reatile disowns BPF power struggles

In a strongly worded statement, Reatile positioned himself as a man who stepped away for peace but is not one willing to let what he calls “misrepresentation” and “constitutional misinterpretation” go unchallenged. “Firstly, I wish to make it clear that I took a conscious and voluntary decision to step aside, with the intention of allowing members of the BPF to freely determine their own path without my influence,” Reatile stated in a recent statement. Yet despite insisting on his withdrawal, Reatile’s intervention reads less like a farewell and more like a warning.

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament…