Retrenchment During Botswana’s State Of Emergency

In April 2021, Parliament extended the ongoing nation-wide state of public emergency (“SoE”) for a further period of 6 (six) months. In terms of the Emergency Powers (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2020 [S.I. 63 of 2020] (the “Regulations”) certain acts are prohibited during the subsistence of the SoE. One such action, in terms of …