The high ambitions of the Transformation Strategy
Thursday, February 29, 2024 | 710 Views |
![From the streets: Batswana are frequently ranked amongst the world’s unhappiest people
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From the streets: Batswana are frequently ranked amongst the world’s unhappiest people
PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Under the tonnes of strategies, policies, projects and billions of Pula announced in the recent budget, lies the principle objective of improving the livelihoods of Batswana. Under that principle indicator is the basic, primal need to be happy.
The Ministry of Finance measures “happiness” through economic growth and associated sub-indicators such as employment creation, the level of wages, rate of growth in prices and other numbers. For technocrats there, the goal is essentially to ensure that opportunities and incomes in the economy keep up with the level of growth in the population, over time.
The BDP as a party known to have ample resources has always held its primaries well in time, but this time around that was not the case. The first leg of the primaries was held last weekend, with the final leg being billed for the coming weekend. This time around, the BDP failed to shine in its primary elections. The elections were chaotic; most if not all polling stations didn't open at the specified time of 6am. Loyal BDP members braved the...