Which way Botswana's labour movement?

The point that is conspicuously missing from the current debate among unionists relates to the objective position of the employee versus the employer, a clarity that only adoption of a working class programme towards a working class party would bring about, argues RAMPHOLO MOLEFHE

The raging debate in the trade union movement takes place, not by accident, at a time when Botswana society has reached that turnaround point where the celebration of independence and the excitement resulting from the discovery of diamonds and the subsequent construction booms of the 1980s have subsided, calling upon the nation to do some introspection and to find new and creative ways of providing alternative methods of providing for the country's livelihood.

The debate reflects itself as a struggle among:

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