Francistown's self-reliance overdue

FRANCISTOWN: Former Francistown mayor Igbal Ibrahim has called on Francistown residents to focus on new strategies to bring about developments in the city.

His comments follow the presentation of the national budget last Monday by the Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Kenneth Matambo. Ibrahim, a respected businessman who is also a past president of the business think tank, BOCCIM,  said that the budget on a broad spectrum is promising and hailed Mathambo's presentation.

"Generally it looks promising and the minister did a good job of presenting it to the public,” he said.  

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Let us all go to vote

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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