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Finding the well of solutions

Brainstorming: Parliament is designed to collate national problems and direct solutions PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Brainstorming: Parliament is designed to collate national problems and direct solutions PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

While the country wrestles with both economic and social challenges, a nuanced debate has emerged over who shoulders the responsibility for producing solutions. President Duma Boko has challenged Parliament to move beyond problem identification and focus on remedies. The opposition counters that the UDC came to power on the strength of its promised solutions. Caught between the two positions are citizens who following years of hardship, are waiting not for another debate, but for results. TIMOTHY LEWANIKA writes

Since the build up to the 2024 General Election, Botswana’s political landscape has become a contentious marketplace of ideas, criticisms and expectations. Every government decision is debated, policy pronouncements scrutinised.

The debates have now found their way into the heart of government itself, where an interesting question is beginning to emerge: where exactly should the country’s solutions come from?

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Appeal to public transport operators to exercise caution

Those who occasionally use highways like the A1 and A3 roads will bear testimony to have experienced this firsthand as they have been overtaken by overspeeding buses. Sadly, some of the passengers are the ones who urge some bus drivers to overspeed.The result of this madness is the horrific accident that claimed lives of nine people on Sunday evening near Lechana settlement along the A1 Highway.It is reported that the incident occurred after the...

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