The end of BMC's monopoly will be the end of BDP

Mmegi: Cattle are central to a great many Batswana. So central that the ruling Botswana Democratic Party even had one of its membership drives titled 'Kgomo ya Motswana'. This is not a mere slogan; it is an equation of the centrality of BDP to Batswana to that of cattle.Liberalising the beef industry might kill the industry as we know it, bring hardship on subsistence farmers and in the process claim the scalp of the BDP in the process as it ever so heavily relies for its electoral fortunes on the rural vote.