Report slams partisan trade unionism

This has been revealed in a report by the Southern Africa Trade Union Coordination Council (SATUCC) in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung. The study is titled ‘Study on Trade Union Internal Self-Reform Process in Botswana’. The main objective of this study was to support internal self-reform process of the trade unions in Botswana. Dr Trywell Kalusopa and Dr Kaelo Molefhe prepared the study in March this year.

“Trade union-political party relationship in Botswana is weak. For much of its post-independence existence, trade unions in the country remained largely ‘passive’ in terms of active engagement in the political process. This is ironic because the pre-independence period was principally characterised by strong trade union-political relations,” reads the report.