CEE: Let's have the right conversations

Bigger slice: Batswana are eager for a citizen economic empowerment law PIC: PHATSHIMO KAPENG
Bigger slice: Batswana are eager for a citizen economic empowerment law PIC: PHATSHIMO KAPENG

In March 2020 the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) announced it was in the process of developing a Citizen Economic Empowerment Law and asked for contributions from the general public on the same.

The President of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi later pronounced during the coronavirus-induced (COVID-19) State of Emergency Parliamentary proceedings that he would be pushing to have the law tabled and possibly enacted in the July 2020 Parliamentary sittings.

Since then we have had numerous commentators and opinions on what people would like to see this law address and this article offers my two thebes’ worth.

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