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BDF Unprepared! The PatriotHOSPITALS on Sunday | www.thepatriot.co.bw FALL APART | April 25, 2021 - PAGE 5 | MASISI COULD BE A ONE TERM PRESIDENT - PAGENews 7 1 PRICE INCREASE! Due to a recent increase in taxes and levies, the cover price of The Patriot on Sunday will be adjusted modestly to P12.50 starting 01 May 2021. www.thepatriot.co.bw APRIL 25, 2021 | ISSUE 421 P12.00 BDF unprepared! BDP • No budget for Mozambique anti-terrorism operation elders • Covid-19, Anti-poaching ops gobble BDF budget Civil servants • Mozambique hesitant on SADC military intervention criticise Masisi face salary cuts • Masisi is losing control of BDP remuneration making some civil and Govt - BDP • Party will soon be over regarding some allowances servants to earn close to three times their basic pay. If proposed Draft elders • IMF calls for reforms in civil service, parastatals Allowances and Benefits policy is adopted, will cap such benefits for • New allowances & benefits policy coming in July civil servants. Government want to reduce wage bill,” confided a source. • Trade unions fuming, vow to punish Masisi and BDP Trade Unions Meanwhile labour unions particularly Botswana Federation of Public, Private and Parastatal Sectors Union (BOFEPUSU) have raised Soliders parade during BDF day [PIC:PRESSPHOTO] the red flag and concerns over IMF recommendations. PHILLIMON MMESO Khama Barracks close to authority BOFEPUSU president Johannes [email protected] have confided that the BDF is too Tshukudu said that the trade unions broke to go to Cabo Delgado and were not even part of the last week he deployment of the fight Islamic insurgents. discussions between government and IMF noting that that undermined military to Carbo Delgado The DLC have reasoned that Masisi T Province in Mozambique already their resources are over trade unions. According to him, to help fight insurgents is facing stretched through the Anti-Poaching government should conduct its own critical challenges which might prove Operations and helping in the fight study on the public service wage bill BAKANG TIRO difficult to overcome. against Covid -19. “Already we rather taking baseless orders from [email protected] On the 6th of April 2021 Botswana have committed resources helping the neoliberal institutions such as Defence Force Commander the Covid-19 team during curfew World Bank and the IMF. “We very isgruntled Botswana Lieutenant General Placid Segokgo and also used lot of our resources are worried that the government Democratic Party wrote to the Defence Logistics during lockdowns and anti-poaching has excluded labour unions and D (BDP) senior members Command (DLC) to prepare a operations took most of our the Public Service Act on its talks and Councillors in Lobatse, comprehensive logistics estimates resources due to the high numbers with IMF. We will not agree with supported by an unhappy for a Battalion Group to deploy for a of poaching in the delta,” revealed a Civil servants during the 2011 national strike anything regarding IMF reforms. Committee of Elders are [PIC:PRESSPHOTO] period of six months. senior army officer. This technical means that people demanding answers from President Masisi who is the chair Corps of Transport Services is will lose jobs as well as amenities President Mokgweetsi Masisi of the SADC Organ on Politics, said to have indicated that most BAKANG TIRO are needed and they include the move that gain traction. According and government didn’t consult us on over the removal of the area Defence and Security will need the of their fleet is obsolete as the last [email protected] reform of the civil service as well as to impeccable sources close to how it will sustain employees outside MP Dr Thapelo Matsheka from information before the SADC extra they procured vehicles was in 2018 rationalization of parastatals. developments within the employer, formal business when it agrees to the Minister of Finance and ordinary summit on Mozambique which were 500 second-hand Land ivil servants and But trade unions are unhappy with Directorate of Public Service IMF reforms,” said Tshukudu. He Economic Planning. which will be held on the 28-29 April Rover 110 Defenders from United parastatals employees are the proposal, saying it handicaps Management (DPSM), the proposal noted unions will confront DPSM As a result of looming tension 2021. Kingdom. C facing a rude awakening workers. The Patriot on Sunday targets to scrap perks such as per Director Goitseone Mosalakatane between Lobatse BDP and party Information gathered by this DLC was also expected to provide brought by huge cuts in allowances, has established that consultations diem and entertainment allowances and minister responsible for public leadership, Councillors in the publication have revealed that level 1 medical support which they as government attempts to trim an will soon commence with the trade extended to senior government service Kabo Morwaeng should they constituency are planning to DLC which is responsible for the indicated that they will also need unaffordably high wage bill through unions as government is anticipating officials and CEOs of the parastatals. find it a need to brief them from summon Masisi for a meeting Corps of Mechanical Engineers, new ambulances as the ones they a new allowances and benefits policy to table a Draft Allowances and Government motive is to reduce its recent talks with IMF. to express their displeasure. Corps of Food Services, Corps have are not in good conditions as recommended by the International Benefits Policy in July Parliament wage bill after it has also frozen 50% Both minister Morwaeng and Both Committee of Elders and of Force Ordinance, Corps of they were bought as second hand Monetary Fund ( IMF), The Patriot session. Minister of Presidential recruitment for vacant posts so as to Mosalakatane were not available for BDP Lobatse branch want a Transport Services and Military from the United Kingdom military. on Sunday has learnt. Affairs, Governance and Public mitigate the impact of Covid-19 as comment at time of going to print. reconciliation between Masisi Health Services, has raised a red flag BDF bought the 45 ambulances in The IMF which has for a long Administration (MOGPAPA) Kabo stated by former Minister of Finance. In addition, discontented and Matsheka before their about the readiness of the BDF for 2017 from the United Kingdom and time called government to reduce Morwaeng has been directed to Dr Thapelo Matsheka. BOFEPUSU president noted that differences can deepen further, deployment due to limited resources. had to reconfigure them and now the wage bill again reiterated its consult with the Attorney General on “There is a new push for civil president Mokgweetsi Masisi and his thus throwing the party into Though BDF through their most of them have been deployed to stance on civil service reform must the matter before engaging the trade servants’ perks cuts through a ruling Botswana Democratic Party disarray. Masisi is also facing spokesperson Colonel Dikole failed District Health Management Team be priority when it concluded 2021 unions. The IMF and World Bank new impending policy to control (BDP) will suffer the repercussions if a mammoth battle of calming to respond to a questionnaire sent (DHMT) to assist during the Covid- Article IV mission to Botswana have estimated that government allowances earned by employees in they don’t tread carefully. Tshukudu down the disgruntled BDP to them on Monday regarding their 19 pandemic. last week. IMF, a Bretton Woods wage bill is very high and needs to the public sector. There are concerns indicated that Masisi made promise backbench too. preparedness for Mozambique The deployment in Mozambique Institution, has recommended to be reduced through downsizing of that there has been proliferation TO PAGE 3 TO PAGE 2 mission, sources at Sir Seretse TO PAGE 2 government that fiscal reforms the public service among others, a of allowances and distortions in TWISTER COMBO for 9990 2 Twisters + 2 Regular Chips + 2 Drinks 2 News April 25, 2021 | www.thepatriot.co.bw | The Patriot on Sunday BoMRA fetes media CEDA/BIUST partner espite the uncertainty of and CoVID-19 vaccine. Monitoring global and local health safety of. Hence the active safety D sectors, the Botswana monitoring of such medical products Medicines Regulatory Authority in such situations is all the more (BoMRA) has taken steps to educate important. According to Dr. Partha, the media about Adverse Events vaccines are designed to give Following Immunisation (AEFI) immunity without the dangers of and safety monitoring of vaccines. getting the disease. It’s common to This initiative, BoMRA believes, will experience some mild-to-moderate assist the media to provide more side effects when receiving balanced information about the vaccinations. This is because the CEDA CEO, Thabo Thamane and BIUST Vice Chancellor Prof . safety and efficacy of vaccines. The immune system is instructing OtlogetsweTotolo lecture was shared before key media our body to react in certain ways: stakeholders as part of BoMRA’s it increases blood flow so more KEOAGILE RAFIFING* iv. Facilitation of IP inclusion in mandate to educate stakeholders immune cells can circulate, and it business planning on Safe, Effective use of Medical raises our body temperature in order EDA/ BIUST undertake to v. Peer Mentoring Products, Cosmetics, and their to kill the virus. jointly work together vi. Provision of business and regulation. Dr Thabang Phetlhe, C on Future Skills technical advisory for CEDA The media plays a crucial role Pharmacovigilance Officer, BoMRA Development, Technology, clients on terms to be agreed in our societies in battling vaccine presented to the media members & Innovation Development. by both Participants as deemed misinformation. Therefore it on how AEFIs are captured, The Memorandum of Understating necessary and appropriate is important that information reported, investigated and assessed. between BIUST and CEDA was vii.
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