Barclays vows to amend its laggard's position
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
For years in succession, Botswana's biggest bank in terms of customer base has remained the laggard in the Banking Adjudicator's report.
In the latest report (for 2006), Barclays amassed 31 of the 74 complaint files opened. It is followed by Standard Chartered with 19 complaints, Stanbic with 13 and FNB with eight.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...