BOCONGO to host first public dialogue
Monday, February 17, 2014
It is billed as the first public dialogue of its scale in Botswana. BOCONGO executive secretary, Bagasi Mabilo, said during a media briefing yesterday that the NGO sector makes a significant contribution to the National Development Plans and Vision 2016.
She said the NGOs are a force to reckon with in serving the hard-to-reach populations, "ensuring their right to education, knowledge, justice and social/economic services.
We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...