For years, employees of Botswana Railways believed they were saving for retirement. Each month, deductions quietly left their salaries, destined (so they thought) for the safety of a pension fund. Instead, much of that money never arrived.
It was absorbed into a struggling state enterprise, leaving behind a growing deficit and a workforce unable to access what is rightfully theirs. What has now been acknowledged in Parliament is not a sudden mishap, but the culmination of years of financial decay, deferred obligations and quiet desperation.
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