FAMILY TIES: Botswana accepts SA government was not part of alleged political interference by Ramaphosa’s sister-in-law – Lindiwe Sisulu By Peter Fabricius PFabric
Pretoria says the Botswana government has accepted that the South African government had nothing to do with an alleged attempt by President Ramaphosa’s sister-in-law, Bridgette Motsepe-Radebe, to influence the outcome of Botswana’s ruling party’s recent leadership elections.
Sisulu said her task had also been to convey to Masisi that relations between South Africa remained “extremely solid.”What the President of Botswana indicated was that he was very happy that an envoy had been sent to Botswana to give the necessary assurances, but that he had no doubt that the government of South Africa had no role in anything that might have appeared in the media,” Sisulu said.
Venson-Moitoi was heavily backed in this campaign by former Botswana President Ian Khama, who has had a bitter fallout with his successor Masisi. Venson-Moitoi withdrew from the nomination contest against Masisi on the eve of the BDP’s party congress early in April, leaving Masisi to be re-elected unopposed as party leader and its presidential candidate.
He added that he intended to meet Sisulu and police minister Bheki Cele to seek assurances that the observers would be safe while monitoring the elections in all nine provinces. Sisulu said a representative of the military council had persuaded the heads of state in Egypt that it needed longer to ensure an orderly handover of power to a civilian government. Sisulu told Daily Maverick the AU heads were persuaded by this argument as there was no civilian government ready to take over.
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