In their review paper BOPEU observes that the 2022/2023 budget speech projected a comparatively different fiscus position as has been the trend with the previous budgets.A move for a larger proportion of the government spending to development...
In their budget review BOPEU acknowledges the attempt by our policy-makers to identify an economic growth rate that is optimal in addressing social ills such as unemployment, income inequality and poverty. “Hence, we believe that implementing...
In their budget review BOPEU says, this continued response to the pandemic in the form of more personal protective clothing, oxygen equipment, vaccines, booster vaccines as well as logistics and ancillary supplies fails to qualify for such an...
The SADC economy is projected to grow by 3.2% in 2022 respectively”.According to BOPEU the signs of recovery for Botswana are attributed to the easing of travel restrictions, resumption of tourism activities, global trade in diamonds, as well as...
Furthermore, it is our view that diversification and investment in labour intensive industries should be a priority to narrow the export base and curb the balance of payments deficits at the same time creating employment as well as opportunities for...
Such as the vaccine manufacturing plant, Implementation of the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), Provision water resources and sanitation services, land servicing projects, provision of high-speed infrastructure to government facilities, National...
In their budget review the public sector trade Union says the approved proposal for restructuring of ministries which has since been scheduled to commence from the 1st April 2022, has brought about discomfort to the organized labour movement as...
Justification of proposed spending from the report needs to be warranted. In, particular, the largest Ministerial recurrent budget allocation of P10.01 billion for the next financial year, proposed for the Ministry of Health and Wellness in...
On the 21st of December 2021, the leadership of Botswana Public Employees Union (“BOPEU”) paid a courtesy visit to the Permanent Secretary to the President. The BOPEU delegation was led by the President of the Union, Ms. Masego Mogwera and her...
What is USDT?USDT is a blockchain-based cryptocurrency whose crypto coins in circulation are backed by an equivalent amount of traditional fiat currencies, like the Dollar, the Euro, or the Japanese Yen, which are held in a designated bank account....
Tender offers are invited for a Tender For provision of Technical Advisory Services of the Public Private Partnership Initiative in Botswana The Procuring Department is Development and Budget Division Procurement Method is Open International...
According to its board chairperson Mr. Samuel Aboneg, it is not the first time for PEUBO INVESTMENTS to review its interest rates. He cited that they have reduced interest rates in 2016 and 2019 and lately in the Month of October 2021. Aboneng...
Government should introspect and account to the electorates and the public as to how far this commitment has been pursued. As BOSETU, our view is that there has been more rhetoric and lip service than deeds towards this noble course. As we have...
Speaking at the BIUST sixth graduation ceremony where she was guest speaker, Lucara diamonds CEO, Naseem Lahri, said recently she heard a radio interview on Duma FM, where the Khoemacau Copper Mine, Process Plant Manager Mr. Mompati Babusi raved...
According to BIUST director of communications, Keoagile Rafifing, the theme for the 2021 Graduation ceremony is ‘Leveraging on Science, Technologies and Engineering for Design thinking in a changing world’The Lucara Botswana Managing Director,...
The 2009 judgement by Justice Nthomiwa confirmed that all work that is related to external examination fall within the ambit of BEC, and consequently such work is not part of the duties of teachers. Following the 2009 judgement, the then Ministry of...
A frustrated BOSETU Secretary General Tobokani Rari says negotiations collapsed as BEC claimed they are not obliged to bargain with the trade Unions on the matter since the teachers are not employees of BEC, but casual labourers. Rari says the...
This, after the Union and the examinations body, Botswana Examinations Council(BEC) deadlocked on bargaining for the wages of teachers for moderation and marking if this year’s examinations.In a statement BOSETU Secretary General Tobokani Rari...
Botswana has experienced both slow arrivals of vaccines and incoherent rollout plan amidst alarming covid19 death toll, one of the worst in the world, in relation to the country’s small population. Intervention by teachers Unions forced Government...
Mogwera who says her union has already lost over 100 members to covid19 complications, told Mmegi online that the non teaching staff remain at high risk of death as they continue to interact with students. Mogwera says her union and Manual workers...
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