Motshwarakgole, who is widely regarded to have been the ace card for the UDC in the run up to the 2014 elections, literally gave the UDC no assurances, despite the fact that they had been seen as a Botswana Federation of Public, Parastatal, Private Unions (BOFEPUSU) project. That seems to have changed, as on Saturday Motshwarakgole declared that “BOFEPUSU ga se ya phathi epe...utlwisisang seo...ga re ba phathi epe, phathi e e ka lelang le rona, re ka e ema nokeng”(BOFEPUSU does not belong to any party...you should understand this fact...we do not belong to a specific party... we will lend our support to any political party that listens to our pleas). Uncharacteristic of himself, the man who is famous for the 2014 elections slogan, ‘Moono ke ono oo’, as he rallied the public officers to vote for the UDC, was speaking a totally different language at the Congress, and perhaps the UDC should be worried.
BOSETU, a member of BOFEPUSU, also seems to be towing the line, as they did not invite the UDC to the Congress, instead invited individual political parties. Still at the Congress, Presidential Affairs, Governance and Public Administration Minister Eric Molale became the first ruling party Minister to be targeted by trade unionist. Motshwarakgole engineered the Congress to identify Molale as workers’ enemy number one, and declared that the strategy to ensure that Molale loses at the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) primaries should start in earnest with mobilisation of all public servants in each and every village in Molale’s constituency.
