This, after the Union and the examinations body, Botswana Examinations Council(BEC) deadlocked on bargaining for the wages of teachers for moderation and marking if this year’s examinations.In a statement BOSETU Secretary General Tobokani Rari...
Botswana has experienced both slow arrivals of vaccines and incoherent rollout plan amidst alarming covid19 death toll, one of the worst in the world, in relation to the country’s small population. Intervention by teachers Unions forced Government...
Mogwera who says her union has already lost over 100 members to covid19 complications, told Mmegi online that the non teaching staff remain at high risk of death as they continue to interact with students. Mogwera says her union and Manual workers...
Speaking to Mmegionline following their meeting with the Minister of Basic Education and the Manual Workers Union on Friday, Mogwera says they are concerned that the burden of COVID-19 seems to be on only one Ministry, yet the education sector has...
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2. Members of the public, stakeholders, and indeed BOPEU members are advised to remain calm and dismiss such reports as malicious and indeed intentionally mischievous. 3.For the record BOPEU would like to state that the matter before Justice...
The legally recognized leadership comes at a time when the union is left with a few months before congress. Admittedly, the union structures have collapsed hence the need to resuscitate them to ensure that the congress is held as per the dictates of...
The Head of Department Taboka Size from New Era pointed out that the Construction Department has always been a part of the institution since it was established in 2009. He said the college primarily offers engineering courses and has transformed...
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Rari says at a meeting with the Covid Taskforce and the Ministry the trade Union called for the vaccination of the Form 4’s as an effective control measure. He added that research has found that although students are mainly asymptomatic,...
Radikolo in an interview with Mmegi at the end of emergency talks with the Ministry and covid task force on Thursday, said in two weeks alone, 24 teachers have died from covid, adding that the trend with covid is that such numbers usually multiply...
Motshegwa said the cancellation which caused confusion among Bosetu members recently, was quickly appealed, and NBFIRA restored it.”I must add that as soon as they heard us, NBFIRA advised us to write an appeal, which they favourably acted upon,...
Speaking after emergency talks with the Ministry and the Covid Taskforce on Thursday, Rari said of all the frontline workers, no sector had been so devastatingly affected by covid like the teaching fraternity, adding that in comparison, the...
Radikolo added that Bofus membership had been growing at a satisfactory rate in recent times with subscription figures almost tallying with the Bosetu membership. Bofus funeral scheme caters for the funeral benefits of members and their...
Bosetu had been advocating for this position since covid19 pandemic paralysed the country last year, but when they upped the ante at a consultative meeting with the Ministry and Covid19 task team last week, the teacher trade unions were granted their...
Speaking at the end of a virtual meeting with the ministry of basic education and covid19 task team where they discussed covid19 pandemic in schools, Rari says their observation is that the Department of Public Health through the DHMTs is...
Radikolo says even worse is the fact that teachers have started dying from covid19 that they contract from the school environment, hence the urgent need for fumigation and contact tracing. Radikolo added that the students being energetic,...
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