‘David and Goliath’ reach a gentleman’s agreement
Friday, August 12, 2022 | 1720 Views |
Combining forces: Presidents Masisi and Ramaphosa with their respective trade ministers at last week’s meeting
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The matter of South Africa’s economic dominance of Botswana and other Southern African Customs Union (SACU) member states has boiled under the surface of various meetings between the regional neighbours over the decades.
COVID-19 sharply brought the debate to the fore.
When the State cannot rely on its own machinery to pursue suspected wrongdoing, repairing that machinery must become a national priority.The establishment of a Special Investigations and Asset Recovery Task Force may help government respond to the immediate challenge. However, Botswana cannot afford to leave the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) struggling whilst building...