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Mpho Balopi Quotes

b. 1969

Mpho "Poster" Balopi (born 1 August 1969) is a Motswana politician, economist and businessman who has been the President of the Botswana Democratic Party since 2025. He was the Member of Parliament for Gaborone North from 2019 until 2024.

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I represent matters of interest to the party or those that can benefit the party and not any particular individual.

In a democratic setting, understand and appreciate that there has to be succession. You can never grow younger. We are all going to grow older and ultimately we will be out of those positions.

I want to warn every member of the party who violates these provisions. No one is above the law.

No one can push me out of the BDP and anyone who wages a war against me shall lose!

There was a lot of bickering, self-hate and isolating other people.

Maybe you as journalists are at liberty to speak or write about elders as you wish but some of us do not get to enjoy that privilege.

As long as we have been given the responsibility to be leading this party we are going to confine ourselves to executing our duties as members of the BDP.

I strongly believe that as the BDP, we started taking Batswana for granted even in our posture as we were going towards the elections.

But as a Motswana, even if you are winning, you have to be humble. Maybe we took a long time or never responded to some of the issues that people were pointing at, saying ‘Here, you are not doing right.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mpho Balopi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.