It was Winston Churchill who once said the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with an average voter.
He could easily have been talking about Botswana’s ruling party primary election infamously called Bulela Ditswe.
Totally against what it was created for, the system has now become a disorientating political theatre for the party.
Bulela Ditswe is divisive and causes a lot of rancour inside the ruling Botswana Democratic Party.
Divisions emanating from it often pester on until into the General Elections.
The losers and their followers often refuse to back the winners, instead opting to vote opposition.
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