BMWU endorses BONU concerns over the Presidential Covid-19 Task Team and De Beers Front Liners Initiative

Several important issues were raised by BONU, including, the discriminative nature of the initiative, its exclusion of other disciplines working in the frontlines, public participation in an otherwise suspect exercise, allocation of COVID-19 funds towards endeavours that do not attend to the immediate needs of our public health system, the perceived bias on nominees and the competitive nature of the initiative.

The initiative itself, whose entire process is centered around the solicitation of votes from the public to award frontline workers, one carat diamond from De Beers and Wi-Fi from Mascom defeats the purpose of the initiative’s true intent.