We knew it all along � BMWU on BCL report

Former BCL workers are struggling to make ends meet
Former BCL workers are struggling to make ends meet

SELEBI-PHIKWE: The Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU) feels vindicated by this week’s damning report in which the BCL Group liquidator blames the Board and management for serious incompetence leading to the operations’ closure.

Unionists have long maintained that BCL Mine and its various offshoots were the victims of gross mismanagement, incompetence and possible misgovernance by authorities in charge in the years leading to last year’s closure.

Provisional liquidator, Nigel Dixon-Warren, in a report currently circulating in mining circles, has recommended further investigation of the Board and management’s culpability in events leading to the group’s bankruptcy.

Editor's Comment
Gov’t must rectify recognition of Khama as Kgosi

While it is widely acknowledged that Khama holds the title of Kgosi, the government’s failure to properly gazette his recognition has raised serious concerns about adherence to legal procedures and the credibility of traditional leadership. (See a story elsewhere in this newspaper.) Recent court documents by the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Kgotla Autlwetse, shed light on the intricacies of Khama’s recognition process....

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