Botswana's economic independence agony
Friday, July 17, 2020
FRANCISTOWN: A question on everybody’s lips today is where have we gone wrong as a country? Our dependence on the neighbouring Republic of South Africa for everything is apparently widening instead of narrowing.
Botswana attained her independence from being a British protectorate some 54 years ago and for a country classified as a middle-income economy, with a population of over 2.4 million people, it’s worrying that Botswana’s political independence didn’t come with economic independence.
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