A fresh vision needed

The man who has had bad publicity over how he handled the Botswana Development Corporation (BDC)-sponsored Glass Manufacturing Company in Palapye, finance minister Kenneth Matambo, will walk into Parliament on Monday to deliver the 2013/2014 National Budget.

While the hope has been that Matambo would resign because he could not very well carry on in his onerous office with the encumbrance of litigation, we seem to be stuck with another addition to a growing list of leaders who are far from being beyond reproach.

Nevertheless, we hope that Matambo will deliver a budget with a fresh vision for an economy that needs a new impetus. We are aware that since he was appointed to his position, Matambo has presented neither a surplus nor a balanced budget.

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Women unite for progress

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