BOPEU Membership Hits 32,000 Mark

Andrew Motsamai
Andrew Motsamai

The President of the Botswana Public Service Employees Union (BOPEU) has announced BOPEU’s membership has hit the 32,000 mark. In fact as of April 19, BOPEU’s membership had reached 32,830.

However Motsamai showed appetite for more saying the figures can still grow monstrously, especially taking into account the huge number of public service and parastatal organisations workers who remain un-unionised.

He also observed that BOPEU’s business wings continued to thrive. “Currently we have an Insurance broker, Micro-lending scheme and we recently acquired several small businesses geared towards diversifying the union’s economic outlook.  It is envisaged that in the not so distant future, the union would raise its flag high amongst the hotel and tourism players.  “

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