BOFEPUSU, BFTU: All weather friends
Friday, April 29, 2022 | 720 Views |

Following the government’s nerving disclosure, BFTU and BOFEPUSU made a clarion call to the State to tread carefully PIC: MOREI SEJAKGOMO
FRANCISTOWN: Formed in 1977 and 2009, BFTU and BOFEPUSU respectively have endured a not so rosy relationship with the government over the general welfare of workers in the workplace.
The two federations’ cause was also not helped by the fact that the government has not domesticated some of the International Labour Organisations (ILO) conventions despite Botswana being a signatory to these international treaties.
It is also hurting that whilst we all know that the Botswana Police Service (BPS) is charged functionally with the duties to investigate all forms of crime, some locals have resorted to taking the law into their own hands. It is very wrong to do that. There is also a possibility that one may wrongfully take the life of a person in the process, unless it is a justifiable case of self-defence. Recently, in the city of Francistown, some locals found...