Bulgasa has always had an ideology

The Monitor of last week Monday carried a feature story on Pelotsweu Baeng, president of Botswana Land Boards, Local Authorities and Health Workers Union (BLLAHWU).

The gist of the story is to tell how the man had a hard childhood and how it cultivated within him a passion for protecting the down trodden from exploiters.

Baeng's childhood experiences are of no interest in this article. What one finds disturbing is that he should claim that when he became president of Botswana Unified Local Government Service Association (BULGSA) in 2004, he found the Association without an ideology that guided its actions and that he then gave it the 'working class ideology'.

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