Wycliff Mooketsi Kgaswe believes that Game Store Botswana unfairly dismissed him from work late last year.

Kgaswe is part of the 12 employees that have dragged Game Store to Court over unlawful salary deductions and non-payment of commission allowance.

“Mine is more painful. I was fired last year. I remember that on the 18th of November 2021, when I arrived at work that morning, I realised that a Dell laptop was missing from the display. When I asked security, they claimed not to know what had happened with it.

“I, later on, realised that security had taken the laptop to one of the managers' offices saying they found it not locked on display. So we took it back to display. Six days later the same laptop disappeared again only this time for good,” Kgaswe shared.

And that is how he got fired.

Kgaswe told The Midweek Sun on Tuesday that he appealed the store’s decision and even sought help from Labour offices. The matter has now been escalated to Industrial Court.

“The store argues that I did not lock the laptop so it amounts to gross negligence yet they know that their alarm system was not functioning at the time. We lost cell phones in the past and no one got fired and I now wonder why I was fired,” he said.

Kgaswe suspects that it is because he was the most vocal among the 12 that have dragged the store to court.

“I spoke every day about the matter. I guess firing me was a deliberate move but I am still pursuing the matter. They had deducted over P10 000 from my salary. I want my money. They also need to pay me for my leave days.”

The aggrieved man has worked for Game Store since 1994 which means he had given the store 27 years of his life. He never anticipated that it would end with him being thrown out.

When reached Game store manager Kedi Ngakane confirmed that Kgaswe was once their employee.

"I can only confirm that he was one of us here. I cannot go further into details than that," she said.