No resolution for BOPEU to withdraw from BOFEPUSU
Friday, December 11, 2015

BOFEPUSU at High Court during one of labour issues case.PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
The firm decision was taken following the former president of Botswana Civil Service Association, Oganne Maroba’s well-thought of speech delivered at BCSA 56th Annual General Conference held on December 7, 1998, at Mater Spei College in Francistown.
In his 10-page speech, Maroba stated that as a matter of principle civil servants should continue to refrain from participation in politics because they are expected to serve the public impartially without political influence.
For a fact, in a democratic society such as Botswana, the media plays a crucial role of being watchdog, holding the powerful to account and exposing all possible wrongdoing for the benefit of the public.There has been a nagging question about who watches the watchdog after all? Perhaps, the investigations into alleged wrongful acts implicating those supposed to be playing the watchdog role will shed more light into what has happened such that the...