BOSETU suffers yet another loss against Mogapi
Friday, September 05, 2025 | 200 Views |
Mogapi.PIC.KENNEDY RAMOKONE
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.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...