Use tax payer’s money wisely
Friday, March 22, 2024 | 150 Views |
This week, the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) presented a draft study on the entrepreneurship landscape in Botswana that revealed horrific figures over how the taxpayer’s money goes down the drain in some of government investments.
The report revealed that while government has resolved to create jobs for Botswana’s ailing economy through funding Small to medium enterprises (SMEs), for a period spanning over five years now, on the other hand the State has been perennially losing lump sums with little to no job creation being done.
Our weekly edition carries painful articles of people being murdered. Whilst some are classified as Gender Based Violence (GBV), there are still a large percentage of murder cases, which often happen at drinking spots, after people are heavily intoxicated. We have in the past carried articles where an individual was murdered because they refused to give someone a cigarette, and sadly this is where we are at now!In this very edition, there is an...