Motsamai doesn’t regret corporatising BOPEU

Despite having this posh office as the president of BOPEU, Motsamai’s 7:30am – 4:30pm job is at the Institute of Health Sciences (IHS), where he works as a laboratory technician.

In fact he has not been to his BOPEU office for a while due to the end of year examinations that kept him busy. Even as we sit down for this interview, phone calls from IHS keep coming in; and then a BOPEU legal officer pops in. He has not seen the president in a while, he says. Clutching files in his hand, the youthful lawyer quickly updates the BOPEU president about some on-going court cases while still on his feet. He hurries off, leaving Motsamai with a legal document to prepare replying affidavit before the next day.