As Secretary General of the Botswana Democratic Party, exactly how much did Mpho Balopi know about campaign donations in money and merchandise that China made to the BDP for 2019 General elections? Most definitively a lot.
When it comes to China money, Mpho Balopi is the one man who also knows where the bodies are buried.
It was the money from China that ultimately cost him a political career into which he had invested enormous ambitions. If his close associates are to be believed that money also almost caused him his life.
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