Boko charms private sector in first face-off

With the collapse of the High-Level Consultative Forum, the country’s private sector has frequently bemoaned the detachment of government from pressing business issues. The Forum, chaired by the presidents of both the country and Business Botswana, was the premium platform for discussing interventions around the ease of doing business. Business Botswana is the country’s main business lobby group representing most of the country’s private sector.

Together with the end of Cabinet’s Doing Business sub-committee a few years ago, the private sector has felt left out in the cold, at the mercy of a rising number of regulatory institutions and tightening laws such as those around KYC, without an established platform to engage government.