EPA: A window for Botswana to boost exports
Friday, June 17, 2016
Botswana's beef industry is set to benefit the most from the EU deal
The EPA has been under negotiations since 2004, focusing on trade in goods and services. The discussions for the goods chapter between the EU and the SADC EPA countries were concluded in July 2014.
The trade agreement includes Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland, known as the SADC EPA group, which represents six out of 15 members of SADC.
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...