Three weeks before Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) hold elections for national office bearers, the president Masego Mogwera, is involved in a dirty scuffle with five regional chairpersons after she slapped them with suspension letters on Monday. On Friday lawyers representing the suspended chairpersons replied to Mogwera warning her that should she not wothdraw he letter by close of business they will file an urgent application in court on Tuesday (Novermber 20, 2018) to interdict the suspensions. Dismissing Mogwera, they notified her that she does not have the powers she claims to have invoked when she suspended them as she has been suspended by the national executive council herself. "You made a decision upon a matter in which you do not posses the power to decide. National Executive Council suspended you on allegations of unauthorised deductions. Your suspension has not been lifted, and accordingly you lack the capacity to suspend other members," reads part of the response. The regional chairpersons also accuse Mogwera of claiming to have instituted disciplinary proceedings against them and later passing judgment (suspensions), thus behaving like a judge and a prosecutor in the same cause. Further, they accuse her of violating the laws of natural justice…