Unionist urges teachers to fight for their rights

FRANCISTOWN: The president of Botswana Land Boards and Local Authorities Workers Union (BLLAWU), Pelotshweu Baeng has said teachers can liberate themselves by fighting for their rights.

Speaking at the Botswana Teachers Union (BTU) northern region conference in Francistown on Saturday he said they have realised that employers are violating teachers' rights. That is why the conference was held under the theme 'Solidarity against poverty and oppression'.

The aim of the conference was to determine what the region has achieved since the last conference. The conference was meant to foster teamwork and to discuss and agree on what is going to be presented at the BTU national congress to be held in Goodhope from April 4-10.

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