The fly in the ESP�s ointment

In as much as the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP),, first announced by President Ian Khama last month, is meant to salve the country’s economic wounds, a fly in the ointment threatens to render the fiscal remedy ineffective.

As pointed out by commentators at the National Assembly after Monday’s State of the Nation Address, the ESP is not the first wide scale intervention of its kind in the country’s history.

In fact, it is only the latest in intermittent initiatives by government to keep citizens from disasters due to the fluctuations associated with being a single-commodity economy.

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Figures released by the country’s electoral management body have shown that a total of 1, 037, 684 people have registered to vote.However, eligible voters could be discouraged by events leading to the voting day like poor execution of advance voting amid talks that the elections could be unfair.There have also been threats by certain opposition politicians that shall the elections not be free and fair, they will halt them.Despite these...

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