Botswana, SACU seal post-Brexit deal
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Investment, Trade and Industry minister, Bogolo Kenewendo PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES
Botswana is chair of the “SACU plus Mozambique” trading bloc that has been negotiating to ensure that the preferential terms of Economic Partnership Agreement it secured with the EU in 2016, continues with the UK even when the country leaves the EU.
SACU states are South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Eswatini.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...