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BOSETU suffers yet another loss against Mogapi

Mogapi.PIC.KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Mogapi.PIC.KENNEDY RAMOKONE

Sydney Mogapi, Botswana Sectors of Educators Trade Union general manager (commercial division), who has been at loggerheads with his employers, has once again triumphed against the union at the Court of Appeal (CoA).

CoA's Justice Goemekgabo Tebogo-Maruping on Wednesday ruled in Mogapi’s favour in a case in which the latter wanted a stay of execution of a ruling rendered by Judge Galesite Baruti of the Industrial Court on July 3, 2025. Judge Baruti had dismissed Mogapi's application for an interdict impugning a certificate of urgency, the legality and fairness of a disciplinary process he was notified to participate in by the union’s executive director, Uyapo Nkebeto.

Mogapi had sought before Judge Baruti that the notice of disciplinary hearing and charges therein, dated June 3, 2025, scheduling a hearing against him for June 6, 2025, at 9 am, be declared and found to be unlawful and/or wrongful and/or unfair, and set aside. He also wanted Nkebeto or anyone purporting to act on behalf of the union to be interdicted and restrained from taking any steps against him in the furtherance of the process commenced in connection with the notice of disciplinary hearing.

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