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TNDP fails dismally with 11.2% projects complete

Gaolathe delivering budget speech. PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Gaolathe delivering budget speech. PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Botswana’s Transitional National Development Plan (TNDP), a flagship strategy to drive economic growth, has seen slow progress, with only 11.2% of its 644 projects completed so far, Finance minister Ndaba Gaolathe revealed in his maiden budget speech.

The government has now extended the plan by four months to July 2025 to address delays and align it with the new administration’s goals.

Speaking in Parliament, Gaolathe acknowledged that just 72 projects under the TNDP – launched as a bridge between long-term national plans have been finished. Around 40.5% of the projects are ongoing, whilst nearly half (48.3%) have not yet started. Many initiatives, he explained, require “multi-year execution due to their scale and complexity”.

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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