Budget will impoverish Batswana - UDC

A national cake itself is made out of citizens’ taxes and common national resources such as minerals and sales of other national assets. The budget must therefore be fair and benefit everyone who has a stake in the country.

In its 2019 Manifesto, Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) argued that under the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) government, workers, students, old age pensioners and the unemployed are poorly paid. Hence they are not fair beneficiaries of our national wealth. We then promised to correct this by introducing a living wage of P3,000, tertiary student allowance of P2,500 and an old age pension of P1,500.