In 2024, Batswana made the biggest transformation in our country’s 60 year history: removing the BDP and choosing hope and change promised by the UDC. This political change coincided with another structural change which Batswana had been warned about for 30 years but never quite adequately prepared for: a collapse in diamond markets which threw Botswana’s economic status into the abyss. Whilst Batswana were ready to change politically they so far haven’t shown a propensity to change how we run our country economically but it finally feels like we don’t have a choice. It is time for Botswana to change its business model and this 2026 budget provides the perfect opportunity to steer this Titanic away from the economic iceberg threatening our well-being.
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