Taking Financial Access To The Grassroots

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While many take financial access for granted, quite a number of Batswana still do not have access due to issues such as their geographic location, financial literacy and unreliable telecommunications services.

Some citizens do not have registration documents and are therefore unable to be incorporated into mainstream banking activities.

For SmartSwitch, access to financial services is as simple as a fingerprint. One fingerprint gives the user access to a verified financial network through which the user can purchase groceries and perhaps in future, receive healthcare, buy fuel and others.

Editor's Comment
End the GammaNgwato chieftainship spats

The chieftainship spats between Seretse and Khama’s uncles have purely degenerated into a permanent elephant in the room and it does not seem anyone cares to ensure this hurdle is dealt with promptly for the attainment of peace for GammaNgwato’s bogosi.Just as the proverbial, when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers aptly suggests, and so is the state of the institution of bogosi in GammaNgwato.Such is the case because the...

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