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Five years of Sisinomics – The policies, the numbers, the results

Tough times: The downturn in diamonds has upended the budget and the ruling party's fortunes PIC: MBONGENI MGUNI
Tough times: The downturn in diamonds has upended the budget and the ruling party's fortunes PIC: MBONGENI MGUNI

The economy, its performance, its future and what it means to ordinary citizens, has become the central issue for voters in this general election. Mmegi Staff Writers, PAULINE DIKUELO, CHAKALISA DUBE, TIMOTHY LEWANIKA & MBONGENI MGUNI look at the Masisi administration’s economic track record in the President’s first term

For better or worse and with or despite the attendant misinformation, exaggerations and painful home truths, the economy has taken centre stage in the general election, perhaps more powerfully than ever before.

In previous elections, on social media – that imperfect gauge of public sentiment – the economy has been the umbrella concern expressed indirectly through debates over youth unemployment, minimum wage levels, higher allowances for students, the disabled and others, as well the numerous other topics that have gone viral.

Editor's Comment
The State apparatus must be sanitised

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...

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