Botswana: Unions in 2016

11 January 2016
analysis

The year 2015 was a mixed bag for trade unions especially for Botswana Federation of Public Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) as they were embroiled in bitter war with their then affiliate Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) especially its president Andrew Motsamai.

When Motsamai was re-elected as the President and the congress voted to disaffiliate from BOFEPUSU, this was a major blow to the latter. The disaffiliation by BOPEU meant that BOFEPUSU's strength has been weakened as their number has been reduced significantly as BOPEU commanded 27000 public service employees out of the 95000.

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