Is BOPEU a union of choice or enemy of the workers?

BOPEU leaders
BOPEU leaders

Following the recent fallout between Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) and Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) in their four-year marriage of convenience, skeletons are starting to tumble out, and the battlefield is now set between the two.

The acrimony between BOFEPUSU and the Employer at the Public Service Bargaining Council is what many of us have long expected and in my previous articles I have given insightful information regarding the strange relationship between government, (the employer) and BOPEU and the union and President in particular.

Before going further in analysing and critiquing the subject matter above, I have to reiterate my previous firm position that the withdrawal or disintegration of BOPEU from BOFEPUSU is not a decision of the union or its general membership, but rather, a decision of Comrade Andrew Motsamai and his supporters.

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