BLLAHWU wants DPSM boss to stop harassment of Motshegwa

Botswana Land Boards and Local Authorities Workers Union (BLLAHWU) has written to the head of the Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM), Ruth Maphorisa, to stop Francistown City Council (FCC) from ‘victimising’ the union’s secretary general, Ketlhalefile Motshegwa. In the letter, attorney for BLLAHWU, Tshiamo Rantao  has told the DPSM boss that: “...our client requests that you intervene to protect the interests of the union and to stop clear and threadbare victimisation of the union representative”.

Motshegwa is supposed to appear before an FCC disciplinary hearing today to answer charges of misconduct. In the letter dated yesterday, Rantao stated that it is surprising and disturbing that the FCC persists with its acts of victimising a union activist when there exists a contractual right entitling him to secondment to serve BLLAHWU.