We are gathered here today to witness history. We must consider ourselves lucky and privileged; and I believe one day we will tell our sons, daughters and grandchildren that we were there when the first union of Botswana media workers, BOTSWANA MEDIA AND ALLIED WORKERS UNION, was launched. This day is a culmination of efforts that started many years ago, way before some of us joined the media profession. I am told that men and women who came before us, some of them now deceased, tried to launch a union of media workers, but failed because of unexplained circumstances. This could explain why a lot of people were sceptical when we first convened at MISA offices and mooted the idea of forming and registering a union of media workers. I am told that some very highly placed officials remarked privately that the union will never see the light of day. But we were serious then, and are even more serious now. We dug into our own pockets and sacrificed our time and money to make this union a reality. This is because we believed then that the time was right to form a fully functional media workers union that would…