BPOPF trustee battles deepen
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
New battlefront: Representatives of civil servants are clashing at the BPOPF
In a letter written on Monday by their lawyers, Baoleki Attorneys, trustees for Trainers and Allied Workers Union (TAWU) and Botswana Tribal Administrators Staff Association (BOTASA) are challenging the settlement order issued by Justice Tshepo Motswagole recently.
TAWU trustee, Allan Keitseng and BOTASA trustee Galeakanye Modise, argue that they were not given a hearing when the settlement order was reached between BPOPF, its acting chief executive officer Lesedi Moakofhi, six senior ranking public officers and the National Amalgamated Local and Central Government and Parastatal Workers Union (NALCGPWU).
“Betrayal hurts, but knowingwho was betraying hurts even more.”- Garima SoniWhat the men of Ditlharapa, Molete and neighbouring villages uncovered is a cross-border enterprise. The modus operandi, as the suspect himself reportedly confessed, is industrial: groups operating in multiple villages, fences cut with impunity, stolen goats walked into South Africa, warehoused at Makhubung, then sold in batches of 200 to a commercial farmer in...