Manual Workers shoots down Vision 2036

In its a fourth handbook edition titled ‘Vision 2036: Another Doomed National Roadmap?’ the union focuses on interrogating the Vision and its success prospect by listing its terms as “disturbing developments in the governance of Botswana”. In the booklet, manual workers union, as NALCGPWU is commonly known, says the Vision is misdirected as it fails to acknowledge the country’s source of problems. The union says although the labour movement greatly believes in the undertaking of production of a national vision that charts the way forward for the country’s aspirations, the government has turned the “ambitious aspirations” into wishful thinking.

“(In) Our assessment of Vision 2016 against the conduct of the current national leadership, we are highly doubtful if the ideals of Vision 2036 can be achieved.”  A new national Vision 2036 was launched last year following the end of Vision 2016. Johannes Tshukudu, who is the president of Botswana Federation of Public, Private Parastatals Sector Union (BOFEPUSU) represented the labour movement in the Vision’s Presidential Task Team.