"Privatising would worsen inequality"

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A University of Botswana (UB) economics lecturer, Brothers Malema, has characterised privatisation as economic empowerment for the privileged elite through which "the middle class will join the poor".

Malema and another UB academic, Kaelo Galeage, were presenting a paper at a privatisation seminar organised by the Botswana Economics Association and Friedrich Ebert Foundation at Ditshupo Hall in Gaborone recently.

Malema dismissed the argument that privatisation would enhance efficiency and wondered what the private sector could do to turn companies around that the state could not do. 

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