Botswana jumps up competitiveness rankings

Capital city Gaborone PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES
Capital city Gaborone PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

Botswana has registered significant improvement in most aspects of competitiveness, surpassing regional peers such as Namibia and Kenya.

However, the country still lags behind when compared to South Africa and Mauritius.

In the recently released 2017 Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Botswana is ranked 64th out of 138 countries. This marks an improvement of eight positions, relative to the previous report.

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Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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