Outrage grows over plans for more MPs, ministers

Last Friday’s Government Gazette indicates plans for two more ministers, two more assistant ministers and two more specially elected MPs. This means that the government would then have 18 ministers, 10 assistant ministers and six specially elected MPs. Botswana will then have 59 lawmakers.

Presidential affairs and public administration minister Eric Molale said the idea was to break down ministries whose sizes were too wide, create new ministries for priority areas and cater for an increasingly complex, modern and growing economy.