BOFEPUSU campaigns for UDC
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
BOFEPUSU leadership
Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) says it will today meet its campaign team at Goodhope/Mabule constituency ahead of the weekend by-election.
BOFEPUSU deputy secretary general, Ketlhalefile Motshegwa yesterday told a media briefing that the meeting would be a review of what they have been doing on the ground. “We don’t want to expose our strategy but you must know that we claimed the scalps of some politicians during the October 24, 2014 general elections,” said Motshegwa. Motshegwa reiterated the stand by the BOFEPUSU secretary for labour, Johnson Motshwarakgole in advocating for voting for the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) candidate, Kgosi Lotlamoreng Montshioa II.
Acting Agriculture Minister, Edwin Dikoloti, is right in saying opening an export-ready facility whilst Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is still spreading would risk getting the whole country blacklisted before a single carcass leaves the door.A ban like that would break the already stressed nation. So, the postponement, painful as it is, is the right thing to do. The local economy is being squeezed from both ends. FMD has already slammed the door...