Fireworks are expected at the Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) national congress 2018, which gets underway in Kasane today (Sunday), where a new leadership will be elected by the close of business on Thursday. BOPEU President, Masego Mogwera ‘s leadership has come under serious threat, after her detractors inside the national executive who are allies of the deposed former president Andrew Motsamai got a major boost on Friday morning. Just two days before Kasane congress Mogwera suffered a major setback on Friday when the high court nullified her recent decision to suspend five regional chairpersons. A total of 16 BOPEU members were recently suspended by Mogwera, a majority of them in the union leadership, safe for two. She accused them of serious misconduct and labelled them coup plotters. But those in the know said Mogwera's drastic decision was a strategy that was calculated to destroy her opponents ahead of the Kasane congress after she discovered that they were planning to challenge her team in leadership positions. Three of five regional chairpersons had dragged Mogwera to court through an urgent application filed on November 21, 2018 to interdict the suspensions. Giving a temporary order that lifted the suspensions Justice Michael Leburu…