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BETP: Gamechanger or new wine in old skins?

Troubled delivery: Implementation has been the proverbial monkey on the back of the country’s development planners over the decades PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Troubled delivery: Implementation has been the proverbial monkey on the back of the country’s development planners over the decades PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The new BETP, its results-first focus and transformative projects, is just the injection the economy needs. However, because it still relies on the public service architecture, will it become like overhauling the engine of a long broken-down vehicle which is sitting on bricks? MBONGENI MGUNI looks at the issue

Every time President Duma Boko speaks, his strategic direction in terms of the agility and dynamism of the public service is clear. With urgent budget and economic challenges banging on his door, a short few years to accomplish them and the ever-louder demands of an impatient electorate, the President is a man on a mission.

The private sector is primed to not only help, but if allowed to, willing take the lead in transforming the economy in the medium to long term, as Business Botswana reiterated this week. Foreign investors, from whom Boko has hinted could be the source of $600 million in just a year, are equally comforted by the country’s stable institutions, A-grade credit ratings and massive potential.

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The Boko-led administration has to tread carefully

‘When you make peace withyourself, you make peace with the world’- Maha GhosanandaThis may come at a huge cost if not handled properly. What started off on Labour Day in Letlhakane this year, where Boko was in attendance when the militant lawyer-cum-trade unionist, Robert Rabasimane rebutted the President’s address in defence of the trade union has seemingly spiralled out of control. The issue is now creating a cat-and-mouse type of a...

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