Batswana flood DCEC to report corruption

Appearing before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) this week, DCEC Director General Botlhale Makgekgenene revealed that allegations of corruption reported to the anti-corruption agency have risen sharply over the past three years.

She revealed that the DCEC received 652 corruption reports in 2023, a figure that increased to 687 in 2024 before soaring to 957 in 2025. By August this year alone, the Directorate had already received 556 reports from Batswana, putting the country on course to record another exceptionally high number of corruption complaints. The figures paint a worrying picture of the scale of alleged corruption in Botswana, particularly in public procurement, abuse of office, conflicts of interest, unexplained wealth, tender manipulation and governance failures. At the same time, the rise suggests that more citizens are willing to report suspected corruption than ever before.