Health workers can't unionise yet

Keitseng said this to the Minister of Labour and Home affairs, Edwin Batshu, who was here to address BFTU members on the International Labour Day.Keitseng said nurses and doctors had applied for unionisation in the middle of last year, but their application was yet to be approved.

"We plead with you to follow the Registrar of Trade of Unions to expedite the nurses and doctors' application to be allowed to form a union," Keitseng said. The recent information we got from our colleagues is that the authorities are still processing their application but as BFTU we believe it has taken too long.