Editorials

Botswana is collapsing under the weight of drug consumption

Drugs have become real menace – and its growing. It is for now not exactly clear why drug use is growing at the pace it...
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Who is in charge at Air Botswana?

Reports that a recently appointed chairman of the Board at Air Botswana who has  resigned from an airline in Mozambique should be a source...
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Gov’t should seriously consider reducing the size of the public service

Botswana’s public financers have now reached rock bottom. Government is unable to perform some of its key functions. This week the Ministry of health issued a...
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Is Botswana losing the conservation war?

Last week Botswana Guardian newspaper ran a very important story on their front page. The story had to do with the latest developments in Botswana’s conservation efforts. It...
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The President’s diamonds themed visit to America was a success; but it will not be enough!

President Duma Boko has been on a whirlwind tour of the United States where he talked non-stop about Botswana’s diamonds, the natural diamonds. By any...
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Gov’t can still rescue BSB from Board Mismanagement

For many years Botswana savings Bank was run through an Act of Parliament. That piece of legislation gives enormous power to the Minister of Finance. That...
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Economic reforms should put productivity at the centre of it all

There are indications that through the Ministry of Finance, the current government  plans to make big reforms on the economy and make it more...
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Foreign investors brought to Botswana at gov’t expense should not be for the politically connected

Botswana Investment and Trade Centre was created to be a first port of contact for foreign investors coming into the country. Not only do they...
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The days of free education, free health are gone

Botswana needs to be responsive to the changing economic times.  As a country we cannot behave like the economy of this country is as...
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Why is CEDA being  so aggressively targeted and singled out?

There is a long running public commentary that the basis of which is an underlying narrative that CEDA (Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency) is a...
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