Manual workers union official attacks Btv

SELEBI-PHIKWE: An official of the Manual Workers Union Otlaadisa Maswabi launched a scathing attack on Botswana Television (Btv) during Labour Day commemorations ordering the cameraman to stop recording him.

The attack came hardly two days before the Press Freedom Day commemorations. Despite advise from fellow union official Dudu Joel to stop the attack as the television crew was there on official duty, Maswabi persisted and said that it is within his rights to demand that he be not recorded.

He accused the national television of failing to air labour related or union issues and said he believes that Btv takes the data they record somewhere else.

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