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Ticking clock in retired soldiers’

Peanuts: Ex-soldiers currently contending their measly pension benefits  PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
Peanuts: Ex-soldiers currently contending their measly pension benefits PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

With ex-soldiers currently contending the measly pension benefits plight they face after exiting the military before court, time is of the essence for President Mokgweetsi Masisi-led administration as they seek to now ‘right’ past wrongs. Time is indeed a big factor as Masisi begs for it, the time his government says former president Ian Khama had but failed to use both as a soldier and commander-in-chief, Mmegi Staffer MOMPATI TLHANKANE follows the issue

Thousands of former soldiers are languishing in poverty and have long felt the weight of their new reality with paltry retirement packages. With a government largely unprepared to meet their needs, the ex-military personnel are suing those responsible for putting them in these incredibly stressful situations when they moved their pension benefits to the Botswana Public Officers Pensions Fund (BPOPF) in 2001.

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