Botswana Savings Bank (BSB) Limited is expecting its profit after tax for the period ended March 31, 2025, to rise sharply to between P71 million and P75 million, a 200 percent to 222 percent increase from the P23 million reported for the same period in 2024, the bank said in a cautionary announcement on June 12, 2025.![]()
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Botswana’s economy which was already under strain in recent months now teeters on the edge of recession amid mounting global pressures including trade tensions triggered by former U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and the rise of lab-grown diamonds.![]()
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In a report released recently titled “4th Botswana National Human Development Report (NHDR): Youth Employment,” the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) warned that “Botswana’s economy is under pressure.”![]()
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Scores of distraught patients at Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone navigate crowded corridors, clutching prescriptions for medications that have long run out.![]()
Botswana’s public healthcare system—once a model in the region—is now buckling under the weight of fiscal challenges and administrative mismanagement.![]()
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Read more at: www.sundaystandard.info/budget-cuts-a-prescription-for-public-pain/
At first glance, Assistant Minister of Health Lawrence Ookeditse’s decision to waive Botswana’s food safety laws and flood the country with millions of pula worth of potentially dangerous liquor may seem like just another public health scandal. But for those tracking the shadowy world of transnational illicit trade, it points to something far more insidious: the alleged protection of a cartel known within the corridors of Botswana’s executive power.![]()
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Read more at: www.sundaystandard.info/inside-botswanas-liquor-scandal-waivers-cartels-and-money-laundering/
