Retrenchment still on the rise
Friday, July 21, 2023 | 240 Views |

Mokgethi PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Last year in Parliament, Machana Shamukuni, then minister of Employment Labour Productivity and Skills Development, disclosed that the number of people retrenched between April 2020 and February 2022 stood at 344.
This week in Parliament, assistant minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Mabuse Pule revealed that a total of 1,204 employees were retrenched between April 2020 and March 2023.
Botswana for the longest time was known for her virulent peace with family being an enviable institution.As the media, we are also scared to be incessantly reporting on these bloody scenes where women are brutally murdered and worse, sometimes in front of their children and loved ones. Yes, we have reported cases where men were also brutally murdered by their loved ones, but such cases are a drop in the ocean.For the past two weeks, Botswana was...