Five years later, BDF nurses await their fate
Friday, March 31, 2017

BDF nurses demand overtime
In 2012, 60 BDF nurses took the former Minister of Defence, Justice and Security, Ramadeluka Seretse and the then BDF Commander, Lt. Gen. Gaolathe Galebotswe to Court, demanding to know why they should not be entitled to overtime allowances like others.
The case was presided over by Francistown High Court Judge, Phadi Solomon. Seretse was cited as second first respondent while Galebotswe was the second respondent.
Particular trepidations lie with the seemingly embedded nature of embellishing tender sums, in most cases without the barest minimum of authority. The worrying thing is that the inflated amounts run into millions of pula across the government ministries and departments. The Auditor General’s report of March ending 2022, which we cover extensively in this edition, paints a gloomy picture on management of the government coffers. It depicts the...