Bridge the gap between rich and poor

Right from the red carpeted offices of the Office of the President to the ward AIDS committees.  Yes, even school committees!  We all acknowledged the problem and were thus able to deal with it.  Today delegates from across the country are converging in Mahalapye to lay a roadmap for poverty eradication in Botswana.

We are told that the delegates will include people from across all sectors of the society; the poor, the rich, the clergy, members of the legislature etc.  There is definitely a common understanding about the enemy that we face as a country.  Nearly a million of our people are living in poverty, most of them in abject poverty.  It is a laudable effort for government to have raised the battle cry from 'poverty reduction' to 'poverty eradication'.