Low inflation offers scope for property investment
Thursday, March 26, 2015
The Central Bank last month reduced the bank rate by a percentage point to a 25 year low of 6.5 percent as inflation also fell to a four decade year low of 2.8 percent in February from 3.6 percent in January.
The slowing down of price increases, which is anchored by the drop in fuel prices, together with the reduced cost of borrowing has worked to improve disposable incomes for Batswana.
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...