Funding remote projects expensive - CEDA
Chief Executive Officer of Citizen Entrepreneur Development Agency (CEDA), Dr Thapelo Matsheka has lamented that it is expensive to take projects to remote areas due to high utility prices. "Service provision has proved to be difficult in remote areas. There is need for a review of capital investment to accelerate rural development."

UB political society hold developmental seminars
When the rest of University of Botswana students went on their long vacation, a team of political science students went on a mission to empower Ghanzi youth on government youth economic empowerment programmes, writes KABO MOKGOABONE

SA transit visa demand cumbersome
After waiting for ten days to get her transit visa, FLO RADULL-GOROBA shares her frustrations of waiting for the travel booklet The queue of weary, frustrated human bodies snakes out of the building. There are several queues for different services but often people are never sure which of these is the right one. Behind the glass counters, harassed looking officers attempt to maintain some kind of order. One can be forgiven for thinking there is some specials at the local market, or an auction of rare goods.