Letshego shelves plans to open bank in Botswana
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Low addressing the media in Gaborone yesterday. PIC KEBOFHE MATHE
In 2012, Bank of Botswana declined Letshego’s banking licence application for reasons, which the microlender says, were not explained.
Letshego has already acquired banking licences in Mozambique, a deposit-taking licence in Rwanda, and is in the process of acquiring a banking licence in Namibia.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...