Business Botswana against SoPE extension

Empty main mall street during lockdown PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
Empty main mall street during lockdown PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

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The business arm says the harm has been done already urging government to open the economy now and rescue whatever remains than to extend that action by another six months.

On Wednesday, the SoPE was extended by another six months and it   will end in April next year.  In March 2020 Parliament approved the State of Public Emergency legislation to run from April 2 to  October 2, 2020 after the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a world pandemic.  By then it was though that the action would provide a better option to safeguard the lives of Batswana, while containing and controlling the spreading of  the disease.

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