Empower councils, empower Batswana

The CDC says the budget cut will grievously affect service delivery, provision of schoolbooks and materials to pupils, destitute programmes, infrastructure maintenance, replacement of vehicles and others.

For yet another year, the close to 200,000 residents of the district will have to make do with the deferral of projects such as; construction of warehouses for supplementary feeding, construction and upgrading of roads, and others. The CDC is crying, but it is not crying alone. Since 2008, local authorities have received tighter funding from the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, as part of broader spending cuts instituted in response to the global recession.