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Govt shifts jobs target from 100,000 to 512,000 | Sunday Standard (opens the original)
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Nine months after government missed its much-hyped promise to create 100,000 jobs in its first 12 months in office, it has come back with an even bigger number – 512,000 jobs by 2036. The original 100,000 jobs pledge expired in November 2025, but the promised jobs have failed to materialize. Now, nine moths after the deadline, government has dramatically raised the stakes, unveiling the new target in the Botswana Economic Transformation Programme (BETP) Mid-Year Review which says Botswana is aim
Moti deal controversy escalates as BDP, BOPEU demand full disclosure | Sunday Standard (opens the original)
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The controversy surrounding the Government’s partnership with Africa Hero to develop schools, clinics and other public infrastructure is deepening with the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) and the Botswana Public Employees Union (BOPEU) separately demanding full disclosure of the deal. The two organisations have welcomed the construction of public infrastructure but are questioning what Botswana is committing itself to in return, who ultimately carries the financial risks and whether the arrangem
FMD outbreak escalates in Southern Region | Sunday Standard (opens the original)
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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is continuing to tighten its grip on southern Botswana, with new outbreaks recorded in the Ngwaketse South area as the government battles to contain a disease that has already inflicted a devastating blow on the country’s lucrative beef export ambitions. A brief contained in the September 2026 Global Disease Monitoring Report by the Swine Health Information Center records two FMD outbreaks in communal cattle in Ngwaketse South, Southern District, in early August. Acc
How Botswana is failing to turn tourism into economic diversification | Sunday Standard (opens the original)
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A new study by Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) has revealed how Botswana is failing to fully exploit tourism as a vehicle for economic diversification despite possessing a wealth of wildlife, natural resources and a reputation for peace and stability. The study titled The Impact of Economic Growth in Botswana, says Botswana’s tourism industry remains uncompetitive when compared with regional destinations such as Seychelles and Mauritius, raising questions about the cou
Audit exposes how SADC Secretariat bleeds muliti-million dollars | Sunday Standard (opens the original)
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A report by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Board has detailed how millions of dollars are being lost at the regional bloc’s secretariat. The audit report has exposed deep financial management failures, weak controls, procurement irregularities and a persistent running into millions of dollars as well as inability by secretariat to implement the regional bloc’s decisions. But to keep reading, we need you to subscribe. Investigative journalism is an indispensable part of a healt
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