Gov’t cuts spending on former HEs
Friday, May 27, 2022 | 7720 Views |

Mogae
According to available budgetary records, the budget for the Office of the Former President has been declining ever since he stepped down, dropping from an initial P4.3 million to the P3.6 million the office will get in the current financial year.
The self-exiled Khama’s budget for his office has been chopped by more than half a million for the financial year 2022-2023, when compared to what he was allocated in the last financial year.
Here in Botswana, we have many single-parent households, mostly female-led, so what does that suggest? That some fathers choose to ditch the responsibility of caring for their children and leave them to the ones who carry them during pregnancy to do the heavy lifting.Of course, in other dynamics, there are instances where the father wants to keep the baby and the would-be mother does not want to, hence the saying ‘whose body is it anyway’.In...