BMWU, gov't attitudes thaw conditionally
Friday, January 25, 2019
The Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU) was irked by the government’s decision to place Tati Nickel and BCL mines under liquidation.
It held a strong view that the group’s mines were profitable and its operations could have been reconfigured to ensure that they remained running. The government held a different view.
“Betrayal hurts, but knowingwho was betraying hurts even more.”- Garima SoniWhat the men of Ditlharapa, Molete and neighbouring villages uncovered is a cross-border enterprise. The modus operandi, as the suspect himself reportedly confessed, is industrial: groups operating in multiple villages, fences cut with impunity, stolen goats walked into South Africa, warehoused at Makhubung, then sold in batches of 200 to a commercial farmer in...