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The winds of change are blowing through the Botswana Prisons Services (BPS).
Following a changing of the guard amongst the top brass, with Dinah Marathe replacing Silas Motlalekgosi as Commissioner earlier this year, the BPS is now in the process of converting some of its non-uniformed personnel to uniformed staff.
In a savingram dated 30 April, the Service revealed all those affected would undergo basic training. The conversion comes across as voluntarily, on a ‘take it or leave it’ basis.
The savingram states that while the BPS was in the process of improving conditions of service for non-uniformed employees, they noted some requested to be converted to uniformed staff.
Axed prisons boss Silas Motlalekgosi invited us into his home last week.
Earlier this month, Motlalekgosi was retired as head of the Botswana Prisons Service (BPS), made to leave a position he held since 2009 when he was appointed by the then President, Ian Khama.
A former Botswana Defence Force (BDF) officer, this is Motlalekgosi’s story; it is a tale he plans to document in a tell-all autobiography soon.
Let’s journey back to 2009 and your appointment to the top post in the Botswana Prisons Service.
It was very interesting when I entered the prison service, quite a dramatic entry and as I speak to you now, a dramatic exit as well.
Axed prison boss breaks his silence thevoicebw.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thevoicebw.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
18th February 2021
Silas Motlalekgosi, the former Commissioner of Prisons, was not just retired his sacking, it would appear, emanates from a disputed tender.
He had hoped to receive P 3 million and several hundred thousands from a government tender until the levers of power were cocked into action to circumvent his impending windfall.
The State was about to purchase his property for P3,700,000.00 (Three million seven hundred thousand Pula but reneged at the eleventh hour.Â
President Mokgweetsi Masisi fired Motlalekgosi seven days after his intention to challenge the legality of a decision by the Directorate of Intelligence and Services (DIS) to cancel a tender that the directorate had awarded him, documents leaked to