BoB decries low agric lending
Friday, August 24, 2018
Answering questions during an economic briefing by the central bank here this week, the BoB’s director of research and financial stability Tshokologo Kganetsano said their studies had noted that the proportion of lending by banks to agriculture continued to trend low.
Kganetsano was answering a question about the contribution of commercial banks towards lending money for agricultural purposes and whether too much reliance on South African goods was not negative for the country’s economy.
While it is widely acknowledged that Khama holds the title of Kgosi, the government’s failure to properly gazette his recognition has raised serious concerns about adherence to legal procedures and the credibility of traditional leadership. (See a story elsewhere in this newspaper.) Recent court documents by the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Kgotla Autlwetse, shed light on the intricacies of Khama’s recognition process....