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Mogwera Back In Undisputed Power

Masego Mogwera PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Masego Mogwera PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Botswana Public Employees Union’s (BOPEU) congress in Palapye balloted its members to choose its leadership putting to an end factional wrangling when it handed Masego Mogwera all the union’s powers over the weekend.

Mogwera’s legitimate claim to power also installs all her preferred teammates on her slate. The congress decision means that factional wars in the BOPEU National Executive Committee will now be a thing of the past.

The last three years, since the BOPEU Kasane congress, had been characterised by leadership instability. A rival faction that had secured seats at the 2019 congress undermined the returning president.

Editor's Comment
Boko should stop the fighting and start the delivering

With his theme of 'Delivering on Our Promise, One Step at a Time', he sought to project an image of a focused, determined leader building a new ‘Rome’. Sadly, parts of his speech were not about laying bricks, but about settling old scores.It is deeply worrying that a head of government would use such a pivotal national address to launch another bitter broadside against the media and his political detractors. His portrayal of the...

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