Parliament has reopened a bitter chapter in the country’s history, revisiting the mass dismissals that followed the 2011 public-sector strike. Thousands of civil servants lost their jobs after defying the government of then President Ian Khama.
For many workers, the episode remains a symbol of how swiftly livelihoods could disappear when the state chose confrontation over compromise.
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