The Fate Of BOPEU's Damned

Masego Mogwera
Masego Mogwera

A panel of three High Court judges on Friday threw Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) president, Olefile Fast Monakwe’s presidency and fate into limbo, as well as to prematurely end appointments of  first deputy president, Donald Mokgwe, secretary-general Rash Sedimo, his deputy Zibani Philemon, and numerous appointments to the board of trustees of the union’s business wings.

The panel of three judges effectively declared Monakwe’s presidency a nullity and put Masego Mogwera and secretary-general Topias Marenga back in charge of the leadership of BOPEU.

Questions now linger as to whether Monakwe, who usurped the presidency from Mogwera, will be coughed out into the doldrums and ejected from the National Executive committee  or settle for first deputy president post to which he was elected to at the last BOPEU congress in Kasane in December, 2018, and wait for the president to invoke her powers to take disciplinary action against him for having put the union into disrepute.

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