“These officers encourage people who condemn BOMU in public platforms,” Lesokwane told the media in a presser this week. Lesokwane said he has documents which show that officers from Societies gave wrong information to the Minister of Nationality, Immigration and Gender Affairs, Annah Mokgethi. “They gave the minister information that BOMU has not been compliant since 2004. BOMU is compliant and I have availed the document which dates back to 1998.
However, some documents were rejected because in 2017 I was one of the people who critisised the BOMU executive at the time,” he said. In June, Mokgethi gave BOMU a six-months waiver after the union was found to have failed to comply with the Societies Act. In a letter dated June 4, 2021 addressed to the BOMU president, Mokgethi said contrary to its (BOMU’s) assertion that it is in compliance with the Societies Act, BOMU failed to submit its annual returns between 2005 and 2014. BOMU later denied that it is not in compliance and faces de-registration, but Mokgethi’s letter accused BOMU of failing to comply with Section 16 read together with Regulation 8 of the Societies Act, which provides for information to be furnished by societies. BOMU was said to have also failed to respond to the Registrar's reminder issued in March 2021.
