This weekend, a large meeting of military veterans was held in Francistown. The meeting was convened by an organization known as Military Veterans of Botswana, a body that I proudly serve as its Public Relations Officer. The meeting was held at Adansonia Hotel and this was an Annual General Meeting.
The meeting comes as the first one since government committed to paying off outstanding pension moneys after using a new denominator factor to recalculate. It has been a long and winding road but the end is here for many. An approximate 11% of these veterans have been paid and the exercise has now picked a good momentum.
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