UB still runs at a deficit
Friday, October 19, 2018
Only the intervention of the government could prove to be the lifeline as a dire financial situation is tightening its stranglehold on the institution which came about through the efforts of Batswana who contributed resources during the country’s lean years of the 1970s.
UB started the year with a deficit of P71 million, the Parliamentary Statutory Bodies and State Enterprises Committee learnt on Wednesday.
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