For some time now Btv has been plagued by staff discontentment and allegations of maladministration, especially over the last three years. The staff has on a number of occasions complained to the station overseers - first at the then Ministry of Communications Science and Technology and then the Ministry of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration when Broadcasting Services transferred to the ministry. However, government had appeared to be reluctant or too slow to a on the staff complaints.
The urgent application on behalf of Jannie by the Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU), is expected to be filed today following a failure by the Director of Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM) Festina Bakwena to give an undertaking that she would not institute the redeployment made on Friday transferring the Btv Head of News to the Women's Affairs Department as Chief Gender Officer. The redeployment that was effected immediately comes in the face of another redeployment of the Head of Operations, Btv Senior Engineer Vuza Ziga as Chief Culture Officer to Ministry of Sports, Youth and Culture. The union then merged the two applications that is expected to be heard this Thursday.
