The Botswana Workers Front was a

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Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label= Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kal ...

. The party was founded by Shawn Nthaile in September 1993 at a special congress in Mahalapye, following his departure from the

Botswana National Front The Botswana National Front (BNF) is a social democratic political party in Botswana. It has been the main opposition party in Botswana since the 1969 elections. The party achieved its greatest electoral success in the 1994 elections, when it ...

. Nthaile charged that he had been kept out of senior positions in BNF due to his ethnic affiliation. Through the BWF Nthaile sought to promote the interests of labourers and his own Bakgalagadi ethnic group.Makgala, Christian John.
'So Far So Good'?: An Appraisal of Dr. Ng'ombe's 1998 Prophecy on the Fate of the BNF
' The symbol of BWF was the

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. The party was based in

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. At the time of the 1994 parliamentary election BWF joined the United Democratic Front, a coalition of parties opposed to both the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) and the BNF. No BWF nor any other UDF candidate was able to get elected. BWF allowed members to hold dual BWF and BNF memberships. Mothusi Akanyang was the founding president of BWF. She died in 2005.IRIN.
BOTSWANA: IRIN election briefing
' At the time, Nthaile served as deputy president of the party.''Daily News''.
BOPA News on 21 July 2005
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