Growth now expected near zero, deficit set to widen
Friday, June 06, 2025 | 140 Views |

Frank talk: Kganetsano at the PAC on Monday
The latest forecast comes as Finance ministry technocrats prepare the country’s inaugural mid-term budget, which will provide a half-year revision of the estimates provided in the February budget.
In a week in which the country was shaken by more revelations of the dire hand-to-mouth state of public finances, Finance ministry officials announced that the local economy was facing the possibility of the first ever double recession since Independence in 1966.
Hurt as he may have been, former president Ian Khama, Sir Seretse’s senior son who was given an opportunity to speak on behalf of the Seretse family, couldn’t mince his words as he took advantage to shred his successor Mokgweetsi Masisi to pieces.He, however, did not clearly mention names but he referred to Masisi as the leader of a political party that was founded amongst others by his father.He would also address him as the former State...