Informal sector relief plan launched
Friday, March 19, 2021
Grassroots: The informal sector has been hard squeezed by COVID-19 PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
The Plan seeks to provide mechanisms for informal sector businesses to respond to the effects of COVID-19 as well as develop sustainable measures to overcome similar shocks by addressing the challenges.
Speaking at the launch on Tuesday, Minister Peggy Serame said the Plan rests on two strategic goals which are establishment of Informal Sector Facilitation Structures and Economic Revitalisation of the Informal Sector.
The Speaker, Dithapelo Keorapetse, delivered a judgment on the allegations made by Moswaane regarding an influx of substandard medicines into the country. After reviewing a dossier of evidence, including savingrammes, letters from BOMRA, and even a death certificate, the Speaker concluded that the Minister was guilty of grave exaggerations.The ruling did not dismiss Moswaane entirely though. It acknowledged that some medicines had been recalled,...