Tlhagale warns trade unions against state capture

Thursday, January 01, 1970

FRANCISTOWN: The Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU) has expressed concern that relations between trade unions and government have become too cosy, which may blunt the unions fight for workers rights.

The union’s president Jack Tlhagale said the bromance between President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s led government and trade unions has to cease with immediate effect.

Tlhagale was delivering a solidarity message at the commemoration of Labour Day, organised by the Botswana Federation Public, Private and Parastatal Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) and Botswana Federation of Trade Unions (BFTU) in Francistown.

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