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Ois Ois REGISTERED WITH THE DIRECTOR OF POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS AS A NEWSPAPER PRICE Ic Volume H No. 6 Organ of the Bechuanaland Democratic Party JUNE, 1964 B.P.P. E SWA E RAGA Ma BPP a tshusitswe ke go gola a Domkraga. Ba lekile go e senya ka Maaka mo bo "Freedom Square". Go padile. Jaanong ba kwadile Dipampitshana tse di akang di re moeteledi wa rona Morena Seretse Khama o dule mo phating. Ba oketsa ka gore "Kkomo-e-tona", tsoebebe le "EKhokhwa", Masire ba lwele maemo. Ma BPP ba tletse tletse mo ba aba dipampiri tseo tsa maaka. E rile megala e e begang dipampiri tse e nthibile ditsebe, ka leletsa Morena Seretse Mogala go mo itsise gore ma domkraga ba re re Sekise ma pipoloso maaka a ba kwadileng Morena a fetola ka gore: "A wena quett ga o bone fa batho ba e le noga e ipolaya mala. A ga o itse fa e yare nogga e e swa e itome. Kgomo le yone e swa e raga. Ba kwalele o ba re ba lese makgakga. Re tla ba tswapetsa fa ba etegela. "Fela ba itshupa mo bathong gore ga ba na botho. E tla re ditlhopho di tla batho ba bo ba ba tlhobogile". Ntwa ya ma B.P.P. a ga Motsete le a ga Matante Ma BPP a ga Motsete le a ga Matante a na a itaana ka rolo go bo go phatsima molelo ka tshipi, june 14. Mapodisi a ba kgaoganya. Mo go bone ba ya go tlhatlhela ba le 10 kwa selong. Go lwelwa folaga le loudspeaker. A mantsi re tda a utlwa kwa tshekong. Tsamaya le masilo! THE 13th PARLIAMENTARY COURSE IN LONDON 0 By A. M. TSOEBEBE, Vice President B.D.P. I attended the Thirteen Parliamentary Course held at Westminster in April 1964 with Mr. G. Sim of Gaberones. There were representatives from twenty-seven Commonwealth countries and it was a privilage to rub shoulders with intellectuals from all parts of the world. Towards the end of the course we went to Northern Ireland as guests of the Northern Ireland Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (C.P.A.) and also to Jersey as guests of the Jersey Branch of the C.P.A. When the course dispersed on the 4th May I returned through East and Central Africa in order to pay respects to Leaders of some of the Independent African States with a view * Continued on Page 2 * Mr. Seretse Khama is seen working with a group of students at Swaneng Hill School. At Serowe the students come from various Secnodary schools in Bechuanaland. They have undertaken to contribute free voluntary labour to the buildings of a dam as their contribution to community development. For your PRINTING and STATIONERY BECHUANALAND PRESS (Pty.) Ltd. P.O. Box 64 Mafeking THERISANYO - CONSULTATION 13th PARLIAMENTARY COURSE * Continued from Pager 1 of putting the Bechuanaland Democratic Party in the picture. Before leaving London I was fortunate to have an interview with the Rt. Hon. Dr. K. D. Kaunda, Prime Minister of the Northern Rhodesia, who was in London for conference on constitutional talks regarding Zambia's Independence. He gave me introductory letters to the Rt. Hon. Dr. Milton Obete, Prime Minister of Uganda, the Rt. Hon. Mzee Kenyatta, Prime Minister of Kdnya and the Rt. Hon. Mwalimu Dr. Julius Nyerere, President of the Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar and my passage through these countries was wonderful. INTERVIEW At Nairobi I had an interview with the Hon. Koimange, Minister of State for Pan African Affairs and Secretary General of the Pan African Movement East and Central Africa PAFMECA of which Dr. Kaunda is the chairman. It is from him that I learned of the African Liberation Committee a product of the Addis Ababa Conference of 1963 with headquarters at Dar-es-Salaam. At Dar-es-Salaam I had occasion to meet the secretaries of the African Liberation Committee in the absence of the chairman, the Hon. 0. S. Kambona, Minister of External Affairs, Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, who was away in Europe at the time, on official engagements. It was disclosed to me that Mr. P. G. Matante then Vice President No. 1 B.P.P. now President of B.P.P. No. 3, and Mr. M. K. Mpho, President of No. 2 BPP or BIP, as it has recently been renamed, appeared before the Liberation Committee in June 1963 petitioning for funds and were advised to reconcile in order to obtain funds although it took practically six months before the waring factions met at Mahalapye in January 1964. And insteed of coming together caused another split resulting in the party having three factions. CARRY THE PARTY I made it quite clear to the secretaries of the Liberation Commities that from the very on set our aim was to carry the Party to the people of Bechuanaland. Only after people had accepted us could we feel that we had a mendate from them to go to the whole of Africa and the rest of the world as their represtatives. We did not want to repeat the mistake our rivals had made by going to the outside world first and then returning home to argue that because they accepted by the outside the world, the people of Bechuanaland were therefore obliged to accept them as leaders. I pointed it out to them that now that we had accomplished our first task, the people have accepted our party and us as leaders, we are in a position to start making contacts with organisations in Africa and elsewhere, so that there may be communication betwdeen them and ourselves. More and above that I pointed out to them that the Bechuanaland Democratic Party offers the country a team of men good and true, men who have stood and will stand together on all matters, men who will not indulge in intrique or otherwise. I made it clear to them that we could not accommodate a party like the Bechuanaland Peoples Party which was in total disarray a split National Executive running over, a party bankrupt of policies, and, lacking ordinary human decency to say nothing of lack of political scrupules Against this the Bechuanaland Democratic Party presented itself to the African Liberation Committee as a party more united than at any time since it came into being in 1962. TALKS WITH UNIP At Lusaka I had useful talks with Mr. Mundia, Minister of Local Government and Unip Director of Elections and Deputy National Treasurer. At the time they were busy preparing f o r Local Government elections which were due to take place a few days from then. Secondly I paid a visit to the Minister of Lands and Works Mr. S. Kalulu, National Chairman of Unip, who briefed me on how they had organised for elections last January. Last but not least, I paid a courtesy call on the acting Prime Minister Mr. Kamanga - who Is the Vice President of Unip The impression formed through these talks is that the leaders of East and Central Africa would appreciate occasional contacts of this nature and above all they have the greatest regard for the President of the Bechuanaland Democratic Party. Tsholetsa Domkrag! 9 Mr. R. B. Chibana of Kanye who has recently been contributing some stimulating articles, to Therisanyo. Among his articles are: 1. Beseshaba, Thuto, Papadi. 2. Are the Indians Assimilable which wrongly appeared under Mr. Matlhabaphiri's name in the May issue. We apologise to 'both Mr. Chibana and Mr. Matlhabaphiri for this mistake. Mr. Chibana's article was received with mixed feeling. Some readers who are not of Indian origin condemned it on the basis that it was racial. Those of Indian origin said it contained many untrue allegations. Selelo sa Tuli Block South Morulaganyi, E re ka go tulwe ngwana o sa leleng o swela tharing, ke bona lobaka lo lie mine rona batho ba Tuli Block South, re utlwela modumo wa dipolitiki kgakala fela, re sa bone ope yo o ka tlang ka ga Politiki mo go rona. Bogolo jang re batla Tomokeraga, ka gore bontsi re Matomokeraga. Bangwe re bonye dithekethe ka go di romela jaaka dilwana tsa dikhataloko! Go rerelwa lefoko gone ga re ise re go bone, gore re utlwe boammaariri sentle. Bagaetsho re thologeng mokgosi, tsweetswee! Kana le rona re batla lesedi. E bo mothologi a tle a re tsholetse dithekethe tsa B.D.P. Tsholetsang le rona, ntla lo tsholetsa lo le nosi koo fela, re thuseng bagatsho ka go tlisa tomokeraga mono. PAGE 2 Ju, re, 1964 BOTSWANA MO TIRISONG YA LEFATSHE ke Ntwakgolo Sekga-KANYE MOKGWA Batswana re dirisa lefatshe kwa ntle ga theko. Ga go nne le ditumalano tsa obaka lo motho o tla lo nnang felo. Motho o hudusiwa ke go swafala ga lefatshe mo temong kana mo loruong. Lefa go ntse jalo mokgwa o o ntse o siame ka gobo tiriso ya rona ya lefatshe e ne e le nnye thata. Loruo lo no lo se lo ntsi ka e ne e le iwa go otla bana le go ba tlogelela boswanyana. Tiriso ya dikgomo e ne e - se ntsi. Temo le yone e nee le nnye ka e ne e le ya go otla bana fela. Ebile e ngotlwa ke go tihoka megoma y4 bonkgege)repe e e ka lemang lefatshe ka go le abola. 0 rona re reng wa Setswana. Mokgwa o otlhe fela, o rona re reng wa Setswana go tlhommisega fa e le mokgwa o o dirisitsweng ke dichaba di le di ntsi thata mo lefatshing, ka nako ya fa di le mo maemong a tihabologo a seshaba sa Betswana se ne se le mo go one fa se simolola mokgwa o wa Setswana wa thuo le tiriso ya lefatshe.