{"id":237752,"date":"2026-06-29T18:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-2026-27-salary-negotiations-tough-talk\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:10:34","slug":"botswana-2026-27-salary-negotiations-tough-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-2026-27-salary-negotiations-tough-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: 2026\/27 Salary Negotiations Tough Talk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Manual Workers Union scupper civil service salary negotiations Argue Motsamai, Rari appointments by DPSM unlawful, should be nullified &#8216;They are civil servants under DPSM which contravenes PSBC Constitution&#8217; &#8211; Dr Motshwarakgole Arguments to be heard on July 3 at Maun High Court BAKWADI LEKOPANE editors@thepatriot.co.bw The National Amalgamated Local, Central and Parastatal Workers Union (NALCGPWU)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.story-footer-link--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606290336.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manual Workers Union scupper civil service salary negotiations Argue Motsamai, Rari appointments by DPSM unlawful, should be nullified &#8216;They are civil servants under DPSM which contravenes PSBC Constitution&#8217; &#8211; Dr Motshwarakgole Arguments to be heard on July 3 at Maun High Court BAKWADI LEKOPANE editors@thepatriot.co.bw The National Amalgamated Local, Central and Parastatal Workers Union (NALCGPWU)&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,3762,257,8429,254,9244,5039],"class_list":["post-237752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-salary","tag-south-africa-today","tag-talk","tag-tough"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}