Expelled industrial workers meet with Ntuane
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
After more than 50 nurses were reinstated in December, the industrial workers, among them cleaners and gardeners, have become more desperate for re-employment. They told Ntuane - who is the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament - that the Director of Public Service Management (DPSM), Festinah Bakwena, had said her understanding was that all workers under the Ministry of Health should be re-employed.
One of the expelled workers said they no longer gather at the offices Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) offices because since the nurses were reinstated, no one took the industrial class cadre seriously.
While it is widely acknowledged that Khama holds the title of Kgosi, the government’s failure to properly gazette his recognition has raised serious concerns about adherence to legal procedures and the credibility of traditional leadership. (See a story elsewhere in this newspaper.) Recent court documents by the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Kgotla Autlwetse, shed light on the intricacies of Khama’s recognition process....