BOPRITA, BOPRITU ruling expected today

The Lobatse High Court is today expected to make a final ruling in a case in which the Botswana Primary Teachers Association (BOPRITA) and the Botswana Primary Teachers Union (BOPRITU) are fighting over assets.

BOPRITA lodged a case againt BOPRITU after the latter transformed their First National Bank account  into their own name.  According to BOPRITA, officials of BOPRITU have been withdrawing large sums of money from the account and some of the funds may have been misappropriated. 

The founders of BOPRITU are also founder members of BOPRITA. In the application, BOPRITA wants the respondents to be restrained from carrying out transactions on the FNB account. 

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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