'No Budget For Student Allowance Adjustment'
Monday, April 15, 2019

There will be no allowance increment for tertiary students PIC: MORERISEJAKGOMO
Molao was responding to a question from Gaborone Central legislator, Phenyo Butale, who had asked whether there are any plans to revise the tertiary student allowance that has been stagnant for many years.
Butale argued that the Ministry should consider linking the frequency of adjustment of allowance to inflationary trends.
It is also hurting that whilst we all know that the Botswana Police Service (BPS) is charged functionally with the duties to investigate all forms of crime, some locals have resorted to taking the law into their own hands. It is very wrong to do that. There is also a possibility that one may wrongfully take the life of a person in the process, unless it is a justifiable case of self-defence. Recently, in the city of Francistown, some locals found...