Budget on track for surprise diamond-backed surplus
Friday, January 13, 2023 | 1010 Views |

Balancing act: Serame’s books could be headed for a surplus at the end of March PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
The last time the budget recorded a first half surplus was in 2014-15 with P859 million, according to BoB records available online.
Finance Ministry technocrats have not yet revised their expectations of a P7.7 billion deficit for the current fiscal year, although Minister Peggy Serame is expected to give an update on the numbers when she delivers the budget next month.
The acrimony that seemingly characterised the relationship between the Malete Land Board on behalf of the Botswana government and Kgosi Mosadi Seboko and the tribe, should now be water under the bridge as the tribe has finally gotten what it has been fighting for - the land.Kgosi Mosadi has articulated an instance upon which she was allegedly summoned to the State House by the Head of State, Mokgweetsi Masisi where the former claimed she was...