Keorapetse trashes Serame’s unemployment feat

Serame, in her 2023 budget speech this week, said she was pleased to note that preliminary data released by Statistics Botswana in January 2023, indicate that unemployment declined slightly to 25.4% in the fourth quarter of 2022.

“We saw a small decline in unemployment, falling from the post-Covid peak of 26.0% in 2021 to 25.4% in the fourth quarter of 2022. On the economic front, we have made insufficient progress in the critical task of diversifying exports, while unemployment remains relatively high.