Manual Workers Union call for vote against Khama`s A-Team faction

24 August, 2009 in Botswana

source: Sunday Standard
by Sunday Standard Reporter
24.08.2009 7:38:37 A

Botswana’s biggest trade union, the National Amalgamated local & Central Government Workers Union, has called on its members and other Batswana who have registered for elections not to vote for the A-Team faction of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party.

The union’s Administrative Officer, Samuel Molaodi, issued a press statement on Friday calling on “all those who have registered to vote to make sure that they vote against members of the A-team in the upcoming elections and restore democracy. It is only through unity that good can prevail over evil, democracy can triumph over autocracy, and freedom can overcome oppression”.

Molaodi stated that “the 2009 elections are by far the most important in the history of the country. The country has seen every facet of Government being militarized. Civil liberties are being eroded at an alarming rate. We have known all along that the President has dictatorial and totalitarian tendencies, but we never imagined that the erosion of liberties would be [continue reading]

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