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BIDPA hails dev budget
After being accused of the “Dutch Disease” in the previous budget, Finance Minister, Baledzi Gaolathe, seems to have paid attention to remedy the disease in the current budget. In the past, government was heavily criticised for allotting the recurrent budget more funding at the expense of the development budget - a thing that was seen as neglecting investment in favour of consumerism.Across-the-board salary adjustment queried
Although government’s system of awarding across-the-board salary adjustments has often come under fire, with many arguing that it only serves to increase income disparities between the highly and lowly-paid, analysts say it is the better model.Second-hand imports rise...as local cars get a bashing
“I don’t care how you put it boss, the future is fong kong,” declares Awaiz Tajbhai slumped in his swivel chair clearly content with himself.
Tajbhai, managing director of Hi-Tech Cars and Extreme Auto has all the reason to be bullish about the Botswana car sales industry, after-all, he seems to be one of the few if not the only one to have placed himself in a strategic position in this once buoyant, but now wobbling market. ‘The small print...’
Last week, we went back to one of our favourite subjects: store credit. We extended an invitation to all the stores that offer credit schemes to help us develop a Voluntary Store Credit Charter. This would contain pledges that the stores would make and we suggested a few to begin with.
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