Time To Thoroughly Prepare For An Impending Revolution!!! :: Mmegi Online

Accept fraternal greetings on behalf of the Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU). A constituency that makes roughly more than a quarter of the entire public service. One of the inherent weaknesses of political parties in Botswana is their failure to develop coherent strategies of working with labour movements.

Without condescending however, the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) has been a torchbearer notably on workers rights issues. Your party’s election manifesto for the past general elections was very impressive. The BCP’s ambition to transform our working poor must be commended.

We have had to reflect on the challenges you identified in your election manifesto, viz ‘inadequate earnings; job insecurity; unsafe working environment; limited social security, ineffective dispute resolution mechanisms and limited engagement between the tripartite partners (employer, employee and government) which you say cannot be left to the labour movement alone. There is no better truth than this.

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